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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: binary data files
Message-ID: <4122@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 May 89 13:31:08 GMT
References: <10946@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <225800167@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1970@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
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In article <1970@dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> And CPM is based on DEC's RT-11 for PDP-11 computers. At the time, DEC
> operating systems were very popular, and they all used the \r and \n
> convention.

That's funny... most DEC systems I know (including RSX, which is what CP/M
seems most closely modelled on) store files as a series of variable length
records containing (usually) a 2 or 4 byte header containing the length and
maybe the line number and then the data on the line.

CP/M was actully based directly on an obscure intel DOS called Isis, with
some teminology (PIP, etc) borrowed from DEC.

Isn't this getting a bit far from 'C'?
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