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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > ... > > The concern with respect to IBM is that ... [they are] > ... somehow unable to handle documents where lines end with > carriage returns and line feeds, as they do on every non-IBM system on > the planet. > > ... You might try checking your facts. True, many non-IBM systems handle a carriage return followed by a line feed (CRLF) as an end of line. In particular, the Microsoft operating systems. But, you might be surprised to hear that a small company called Sun Microsystems in their Solaris operating system only uses a line feed character. In a similar manner I've heard that Apple only uses a carriage return character to end lines. Try opening a file that's been created on Solaris using Notepad (I've attached the above paragraph for your viewing pleasure)... Looks pretty ugly doesn't it? In short, I think you're being overly hard on IBM and please realize that Microsoft hasn't taken over the world just yet. Ed. You might try checking your facts. True, many non-IBM systems handle a carriage return followed by a line feed (CRLF) as an end of line. In particular, the Microsoft operating systems. But, you might be surprised to hear that a small company called Sun Microsystems in their Solaris operating system only uses a line feed character. In a similar manner I've heard that Apple only uses a carriage return character to end lines.
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