On Thursday 17 March 2005 23:17, Paul Moore wrote: > <offtopic> > Ironically, at the lowest level, Windows behaves just like Unix > (files are pure byte streams) - it's only in the C runtime and > application code that CRLF issues arise, and that's a > backward-compatibility hack dating back to the days of MS-DOS. > </offtopic>
Even more offtopic: Actually, the CR/LF pair dates back to the ancient teletype writers, which needed one character for the right-to-left movement of the paper carriage (hence the literal meaning of "Carriage Return"), and one for the vertical movement. I believe it was Tom Swan who, in his "Programming Turbo Pascal" from the eighties, said something to the effect that "this is not only a case of the tail wagging the dog, but a tail that keeps on wagging twenty years after the dog has rolled over and died." Sorry-for-spinning-of-on-a-tangent-ly yours - -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
