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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with Tur
Message-ID: <1657@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 20:24:55 GMT
References: <14517@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <140700008@cdp>
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown UNIX; Portland, OR.
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jeff@cdp.UUCP writes:


<> for it to be sent to a terminal. For Unix, text files must be translated
<> so a lf sends out both a line feed and a carriagereturn - and this
<> means it is impossible to send out a linefeed alone.

<"Don't be ridiculous."  Of course it's possible to send out a linefeed
<alone.  You need to issue the proper ioctl() to turn off CR/LF mapping.

And how, pray tell, do you do this *inside a text file*?

What he was saying is that it is possible to have *pure text* files
under MS-DOS (or CP/M) that cannot be correctly displayed under Unix.
It would be nice if Unix would follow the ASCII standard...
(yes, I know this is heresy...)
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