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In article <3A303861.F2CF902C@optonline.net>, ronw@optonline.net wrote:

>Wait a minute...

waiting .......   :)

>MWRon wrote:
>
>>
>> It is because Macs use  a different line ending than UNIX does.  the 0xA
>> and 0xD are turned around.
>>
>
>I thought that Macs use 0x0d line termination, UNIX uses 0x0a line termination,
>and DOS uses 0x0d 0x0a line termination, so any code that works under all
>platforms has to hunt for both CR and LF. Many programs have been burned by
>that, including Netscape, early PC versions of which couldn't read the the
>bookmark file created on the Mac version until the LFs had been added.

but.... if unix has 0xA  and Windows has 0xD/0xA   if you searched for 0xA
while you would always get an extra "CR' in the Windows code it would
parse the line correctly.  I assumed that Java just ignores 'CR'.   
However since Macs have no 0xA they never get an end of line.

Ron

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