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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Distinguished pointers (was Re: Weird syscall returns)
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 12:15:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 12:15:20 1987
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> There is no "new line" character in ASCII. UNIX uses "line feed" as the new
> line character. OS/9 uses "carriage return". I'd say the 'C' language itself
> is suffering from parochialism here.

Tsk, tsk.  How many of the people pontificating about ASCII have actually
read the ASCII standard?  Down in the fine print, it says loud and clear
that IF a single character is used for the new line function, it shall be
the one otherwise known as linefeed, and "newline" is then a legitimate
name for it.  I don't vouch for the wording -- my copy of the standard
isn't handy -- but the meaning is clear.  OS/9 is simply wrong here.
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