On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:02:14 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>The traditional separator was CRLF, but the Multics developers decide to use a
>single character, and Unix followed suit; I don't know why they didn't choose
>RS ('1E'X) which, IMHO, would have been a much more sensible choice.
>
I heartily agree. CRLF is device-bound thinking, akin to Machine Carriage
Control. Rendering should be the responsibility of the device driver.
And Classic MacOS chose CR because that's the code generated by ENTER on
some programmer's keyboard.
>Maybe the wanted to support multi-line messages?
>
Why couldn't RS have served that function, even as LF operates in UNIX?:
682 $ printf 'first line\nsecond line.\n'
first line
second line.
683 $
-- gil
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