Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:49:36 -0600
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From: Martin Rowe <martin@dbg400.net>
> *nix - LF
> Win - CRLF
> Mac - CR
>
> Isn't diversity wonderful ;-) Leif's already posted the hex values they
> match to.
>

Actually Unix and Win are both standard compliant. The ASCII
standard when it came out around 1965 also allowed a single
chars as a "newline" character. If you elected to use a single
character it had to be the LF (value 10, x0A). It is the Mac that
is "goofy".

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