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Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:47:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:47:12PM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote:
>Cary Jamison wrote:
>
>>As far as I know, Unix is actually the oddball, using only a single
>>character to represent two actions on the old ttys, a carriage return
>>followed by a line feed. All oses I used before I was exposed to Unix had
>><cr><lf> line endings - these included various other mini and
>>microcomputer oses of the late 70s early 80s era.
>
>Thank you, Methuselah!
>
>Hey, on the old OSes that *I* used, there was no concept of a "line
>separator". *Real* OSes used *records* (fixed-length space-padded, or
>variable-length) for all files, including text files :-). <CR><LF> was
>only used for formatting the file for printing..
? The OSes that I used didn't need padding. I just stayed within 7
characters and used a new card when I needed to move to the next "line".
No need for a backup either, since my programs were all on convenient,
flammable cards.
cgf