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Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where differentOS's

• From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
• To: Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@de.ibm.com>
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:26:07 +1100

In the first decades of computing, there were two kinds of "newlines".  One was control codes for printers: carriage return and line feed. The other was record start and end signifiers for tape storage: think  COBOL or FORTRAN.

By the 1990s, both kinds of raw newlines had been superseded: drivers hid device details, and Apis took hid drivers.  Newlines were for formatting things on screen or for markup.

Rick

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  • Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS'srepresent newline differently
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS'srepresent newline differently
    • From: Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@de.ibm.com>