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From: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX
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> 
> apple/mac uses CR
> dos/win   uses LF/CR
> unixes    use  LF
> 
> why didn't unix choose CR as the standard EOL?
> (at least we'd be left w/only 2 standards)
> what a mess of such a simple stupid thing!
> 

Yea I know... I get HTML files from all of the above and I have to
do the following to each:
apple/mac change \r tp \n
unix      Nothing
DOS       strip the \r

its a pain, but unix has good search and replace capabilities...
	 think this ranks near the Endian argument.....
         (Only near.....)

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