On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 19:24 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > A line _should_ be terminated by a single character. What that character > is is a somewhat arbitrary choice, given that the ASCII table doesn't > have an end-of-line (EOL) character, just CR and LF and ASCII was what > was there the play with. UNIX went with NL, OS/9 and Macs went with CR, > and DOS went with "I'm too dumb to translate text delimiters into > printer control actions", thus its CR/NL overspeak. Considering that the display of text files is still done over terminals where the ability to return to the beginning of the same line and overwrite, is a useful feature, there's value in the end of line having separate line feed and return characters. Not all display of text is of static text. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
