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From: martens@shawnee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga to Mac?
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Date: 9 Apr 89 04:54:37 GMT
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In article <3696@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.

Actually, I'd rather see people use CR than linefeed, for a couple reasons:

1) Until Unix came along, just about everybody used CR for
end-of-line.  Unix was the renegade, and now a lot of newer systems
are copying the Unix "standard."

2) Terminals use CR rather than LF to end the line, so somewhere along
the way, to get a program to think a LF has been typed rather than a
CR, CR has to be mapped to LF.  Just think, AmigaDOS could be about 3
words shorter and run imperceptibly faster.
-=-
-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu)

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