On Sunday 05 April 2009 05:43:02 pm Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 5 Apr 2009 at 13:27, Fred Cisin wrote:
New-line is not really standardized.
Although the machines may all claim to be using ASCII,
newline may be represented by
CR LF,
CR,
LF,
or LF CR (rarest)
The reasons are enough for a thread of its own.
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.
I remember seeing those and thinking that something of that sort would be a
good idea, and wondering if it were actually being done that way. Sometime
around the point in time when I first ran across definitions of all that
ASCII stuff...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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