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Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade


Cary Jamison wrote:

As far as I know, Unix is actually the oddball, using only a single character to represent two actions on the old ttys, a carriage return followed by a line feed. All oses I used before I was exposed to Unix had <cr><lf> line endings - these included various other mini and microcomputer oses of the late 70s early 80s era.

Thank you, Methuselah!


Hey, on the old OSes that *I* used, there was no concept of a "line separator". *Real* OSes used *records* (fixed-length space-padded, or variable-length) for all files, including text files :-). <CR><LF> was only used for formatting the file for printing..

Back to the "bash"ing..


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