begin quoting Mike Marion as of Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:36:51PM -0800: > Quoting Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Um, standard in Unix is just LF, it's MSDOS that standardizes on CRLF. > >The Mac standardizes on CR, just to be different... > > That must've been pre-OSX since OSX seems to be standard unix \n.
Correct. OS X is BSD, which means it *mostly* uses LF -- every so often there's an application that uses CR instead, which can cause a little suprise when you're not expecting it. Mostly it's the applications that have been ported from the Mac world instead of the *nix world -- but I'm seeing it less and less, and soon the CR line-termination convention will be a distant memory, and we'll have young kids telling us that the Mac has *always* terminated lines with LF. -Stewart "A foot firmly in three camps." Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
