Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Historical question: LF vs. CR\LF in text files Keywords: text files Message-ID: Date: 31 May 90 16:05:03 GMT References: <952@ashton.UUCP> <7581@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: usa Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <7581@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes: > I have used several systems that went the single character route using the > Carriage Return. This is probably the most sensible because input conversion > is not necessary. However, the ASCII code set includes the recommendation that *if* a single character is used for "new-line" it be the "line-feed" character. The reason, I assume, is that a single carriage-return is more useful for translating Fortran carriage-control to ASCII. > I know that the net is full of UNIX-myopic people, but UNIX was not first nor > did it make the best move on this one. They might not have been the first, but it's more useful to be able to generate a single CR than a single LF on your output. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.