Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:08:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Claude Buisson <ubc@adam.framatome.fr> To: Larry Dolinar <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> Cc: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org, Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu>, "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960926170419.27992C-100000@adam.framatome.fr> In-Reply-To: <ED0F2C66790@bldg1.croute.com>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Larry Dolinar wrote: > | From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> > > | On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > | > | > 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! > | > | Since UNIX precedes these other OS's by about 15 years, I would have > | thought if Microsoft/Apple had any interest in standards they would > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > What in the world are you thinking: Mr. Gates (et al) interested in > standards? > > | have followed UNIX's lead. (bit like using \ in dos instead of UNIX's /) > | > > I'll drink to that.... > If you read the old (US)ASCII standard (I do not remember the #), there is something which says that when a vertical and a horizontal displacements must be combined (e.g. for a TTY), the control character to be used is the one corresponding to the vertical displacement (LF,FF,VT), the CR being implied. The UNIX standard is just the application of an official standard. Claude Buisson
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