Historical question: LF vs. CR\LF in text files

[Michael Meissner]

In article <12661 at netcom.UUCP> ergo at netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
writes:

| The developers of Unix didn't merely drop the carriage return character.
| They renamed the line feed character "newline".  At the time some people
| objected to this, pointing out that there was now no "down one line"
| character.

In the eight bit world which uses ASCII as a subset, there is a Next
Line byte.  We had great fun in the X3J11 committee when it was
discovered that the appropriate standards body for character sets was
trying to obsolete the use of linefeed as a newline character.
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