Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!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 Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 90 21:46:08 GMT References: <952@ashton.UUCP> <253@samna.UUCP> <2323@borabora.omni.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: usa Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <2323@borabora.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes: > The old TENEX operating system used ^_ (\037) as the end of line > character. What a pain that was! That almost makes sense: that's Unit Seperator in ASCII. By an odd co-incidence, that's the character generated by the "NEW LINE" key on my old Intel terminal. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today? @FIN Dirty words: Zhghnyyl erphefvir vayvar shapgvbaf.