> Hey all:
>
> Going over Sean C.'s Coding Standards and noticed that he states you
> should make sure to use Unix Linefeeds.
>
> Just curious as to whether or not anybody could shed some light on
> why?
>
It is a small thing, but a Unix new line (\n) takes half the characters
than the windows carriage return (\r) followed by a new line (\n)
the separation of the two functions cr and lf is a throwback to the
days when teletype and selectric typewriters were used as computer
consoles and terminals. When printing formatted data, it was often
faster to do a lf and backspace instead of cr lf followed by spaces
and/or tabs. Some terminals could even buffer and print backwards.
With modern displays, this advantage of separating cr and lf is gone.
Interesting that the older OS (Unix) has the newer construct -- i
suspect that this is largely due to IBM's influence on the early
versions of MS DOS.
HTH
Dick
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