Individual . . wrote: [] > Anyway on some systems, to get the same effect that you're used to on > the mac, the text editor program needs to write "newline" plis > "linefeed" (or was it "return") .. anyway, this is extremely muddled in > my head. Maybe someone else can clarify.
OK, I'll bite. There are these two control characters, one (CR) originally meaning that you want to continue your text in the first column, the other (LF) meaning that you want to continue on the next line. CR: "carriage return", ASCII char 13 (hex 0d), Ctrl-M, C code "\r" LF: "line feed", ASCII char 10 (hex 0a), Ctrl-J, C code "\n" Now, if you remember those things called typewriters, you didn't do two things to go to the next line (maybe you did with the first models, but even I don't remember those). On the mechanical ones I remember, you had a lever to the right that you used to push the carriage to the left, and at the same time some gear turned and shifted the paper so that you continued on the next line. On the electrical ones from which we all inherited the computer keyboards, there was only one RETURN key (actually there were also keys that did only CR and only LF, but you didn't need them for normal writing). This is why UNIX and the Mac use only one control character to do CR/LF: UNIX uses only LF, the Mac uses only CR, and DOS uses both CR and LF. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek We have stuff for geeks like you. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
