Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

haha ... imagine that ... Microsoft strictly adhering to a standard. :p
Must have been the good ol' days.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR


>      TTYs were originally hardware devices, which
>      (usually) adhered strictly to the ASCII standard.
>      According to ASCII, to move to a new line you
>      need two characters, a carriage return and a
>      line feed. In Unix, on the other hand, the
>      ASCII line feed is used for both purposes - so
>      we can't just use \n, because it wouldn't have
>      a carriage return and the next line will
>      start at the column right after the line feed.
>
>      In CP/M and its derivatives, such as MS-DOS and
>      Windows, the ASCII standard was strictly
>      adhered to, and therefore a new line requires
>      both a line feed and a carriage return.