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From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Historical question:  LF vs. CR\LF in text files
Keywords: text files
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Date: 29 May 90 20:09:23 GMT
Reply-To: tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts)
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Forgive the bandwidth, but seeing that others beside myself are
having occassional problems relating to the differences between
UNIX vs. DOS (and CP/M, correct?) in handling end of lines, I am
wondering how this started.  Since UNIX came first, I am going to
guess that at some time, somewhere someone said "Hey - let's add
a carriage return!"  Does anyone know the (possibly amusing?) story
behind this?  What was the essential rationale?

Tom Rombouts, Torrance Techie  Voice: (213) 538-7108