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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ASCII
Message-ID: <12471@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 28 Oct 88 19:43:08 GMT
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1991@stpstn.UUCP> <381@infmx.UUCP> <24566@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <3989@rlvd.UUCP> <1988Oct24.201751.19602@utzoo.uucp> <359@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <359@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
| In article <1988Oct24.201751.19602@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
| ...ASCII is a single, well-defined, well-specified character set, with no
| 
| Except, of course, for LINE FEED/NEWLINE.

  I think Henry's right. There is no newline in ASCII, it's a feature(?)
of the C language, and should not be confused with a real character. If
C had only used a non-carriage control character to delimit records,
say... the record separator character, there would be less hassle with
when is it a newline and when is it carriage control.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me