Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: New Thread: What _REALLY_ makes a product successful? Message-ID: <1991May28.121834.8799@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 28 May 91 12:18:34 GMT References: <24947@well.sf.ca.us> <1991May24.140704.24092@swbatl.sbc.com> <25072@well.sf.ca.us> Distribution: usa Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article <25072@well.sf.ca.us> farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: > 2: CR AND LF are not a simple carriage return. Didn't say it was. It > is, however, a succinct description of what you actually want. No it isn't. What I want is "newline". The number of times I've wanted separate CR can be counted on my fingers. The number of times I've wanted a separate LF can be counted on my nose. That's right: precisely once, for a program called "fast" that catted a file using optimised cursor addressing. And it's even funnier when you consider that IBM's own code, EBCDIC, separates the newline function from the ASCII carriage control codes. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .