Chuck Guzis wrote:
The CDC STAR OS used US as an EOL character. It was useful on a batch-
input OS; one could organize a job with US, RS, GS and FS characters.
Files consisting of groups of records consisting of units. Makes
sense--and odd that it wasn't more widely adopted.
One would
logically assume that the matter of carriage control would be treated
as an issue of formatting, not of delimiting information.
The Zed language (sibling to C) used one of the separator ASCII characters for
end-of-line (IIRC it was RS) for these sorts of reasons. It was nice for
clarity and helping to avoid ambiguity.