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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga to Mac?
Message-ID: <3696@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 8 Apr 89 22:43:58 GMT
References: <7568@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2368@cps3xx.UUCP>, <8YCefHy00Vsf4=7K5l@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <8YCefHy00Vsf4=7K5l@andrew.cmu.edu>, mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
> The Amiga uses LF as a line terminator, while the Mac uses CR.

I wish people wouldn't do that. ASCII defines two alternatives for the
'new-line' sequence: either CR-LF or (if a single character is to be used)
just plain LF. The whole point to splitting LF and CR was to allow using
CR for overstriking, which doesn't work if you do a linefeed when you see
a CR.
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