On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:45:14 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/04/2008 > at 04:03 PM, Mark Zelden said: > >>The problem is Windows / DOS uses CR+LF and Unix just uses LF (newline) >>(as does MAC from what I read). > >My understanding is that the Mac uses CR. > Used to. Old info. OS X is UNIX; 10.5 is reportedly even UNIX-brandable. (But UNIX doesn't constrain the choice of newline character -- to wit: UNIX branded z/OS Unix System Services doesn't use LF.)
Mac applications are pretty eclectic: The first occurrence in a file of <LF>, <CR><LF> or <CR> imprints the convention for processing the rest of the file and saving it back to disk. There are some holdouts; e.g. TN3270 X insists that its profile be Classic Mac (<CR>) delimited. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
