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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with TurboC 1.5
Message-ID: <24037@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 89 19:06:32 GMT
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Organization: malkaryotic
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As someone else mentioned n passing, MS-DOS's convention eats up 2K on a
2000-line file, to no advantage.  Programs that process input streams
have to do more work to handle End-Of-Lines; not much, but a bit more.

Forgetting compatibility, the Unix convention just makes more sense.