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Subject: Serial IO question
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Date: 5 Feb 90 10:17:40 GMT
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#\newline is not a real character but
something that behaves differently depending on your operating system.
Some operating systems recognize end-of-line as two characters
(for example carriage-return and linefeed) while some others recognize
end-of-line as a single character (linefeed). #newline is the standard
CL kludge because of this lack of standards for end-of-lines.
In other word, as far as EOL is concerned, the same datafile
can be read differently by the same CL code on two different operating
systems.