Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:22551 comp.sys.ibm.pc:51614 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!xylogics!bu.edu!husc6!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Historical question: LF vs. CR\LF in text files Message-ID: Date: 31 May 90 18:37:33 GMT References: <952@ashton.UUCP> <12661@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: usa Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 17 In-reply-to: ergo@netcom.UUCP's message of 31 May 90 02:27:33 GMT In article <12661@netcom.UUCP> ergo@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. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so