Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ASCII
Message-ID: <1988Oct31.205108.17233@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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@rl <356@auspex.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 88 20:51:08 GMT

In article <356@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>>  I think Henry's right. There is no newline in ASCII,
>
>Well, I don't have ANSI X3.4-1977 handy to check what Line Feed really
>means in the original spec for ASCII...

"New Line" is explicitly specified as an alternate interpretation of
"Line Feed", to be used if and only if both ends of the communication
agree on it.
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