reading that post :)
Ray
At 07:18 PM 8/9/2004, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>On Aug 9, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Charlie Griefer wrote:
>
> > 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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