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[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:18:42PM -0500, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Dos is CR/LF unix is just CR fwiw.

Erm... That's not entirely correct...
DOS, CP/M and other variants of the system all use CR/LF pairs. (this is due
to the old typewriter analogy; CR moves the carriage back to the beginning =
of
the line, and LF moves the paper up one line)

Unices are mandated to use LF only (I believe this is a POSIX requirement,
not sure, though). Hence, when you directly copy any text file from a *nix
based system to a DOS based system and type it out, you end up with
"stairstepping" of the text. Eg:
      The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
      	  	      	  	      	       	   The quick brown fox jumped.

Theoreticially, if it were possible to convert directly from a MacOS text
file to DOS ASCII, if you were to type it out, all the text lines would
overwrite each other on the same line.

Random trivia... =3Dop

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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