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From: bill@dayton.UUCP (Bill Argyros)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Carriage_Returns Line_Feeds New_lines
Message-ID: <687@dayton.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 13:34:17 EST
Article-I.D.: dayton.687
Posted: Tue Mar 11 13:34:17 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Mar-86 03:50:53 EST
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Organization: Dayton Hudson Dept. Stores Mpls, MN
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In article <444@ucsfcca.UUCP> root@ucsfcca.UUCP (Computer Center) writes:
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>
>Some brain damaged systems designed by people ignorant of the standard
>actually store both the "Carriage Return" and "Line Feed" within data
>files as a line break code, thereby wasting an average of 2 - 5 % of
>the file storage space and complicating the programs which deal with
>these files.
       This is the best description of the IBM PC I have yet heard.

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