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RE: CR/LF problems after upgrade
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "Luke Kendall" <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:27:02 -0500
- Subject: RE: CR/LF problems after upgrade
From: Luke Kendall
> <philosophy>
> I wonder how many centuries of human endeavour has been
> absorbed because of the decision to use CR+LF as line
> endings in DOS?
> </philosophy>
<OT>
To be fair, \r\n seems to go back to Gary Kildall's CP/M.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unprintable_characters
</OT>
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