Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:51:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Cc: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960924164946.16973A-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924181124.293F-100000@hmmm.alaska.net>
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> apple/mac uses CR
> dos/win uses LF/CR
> unixes use LF
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> 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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