> So this legacy encoding of end-of-lines is now quite obsolete > even on MacOS.
I don't think it can be called "obsolete" as long as files generated using that line end convention exist. Or, at least, applications that have an operation for "read a line" will have to cope with it. (In other words, all of the CR LF CRLF LFCR should mark an "end of line".)
