On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > > It obviously goes back at least as far as ASCII itself. LF means "line feed", > which advances the platen one line. CR means "carriage return" which moves > the print head to the beginning of the line. These are separate operations, > and a lot of older programs relied on it. ASCII terminals (and teletypes) all > operated this way.
Most (all?) internet protocols require CRLF for line termination as well. _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
