newline indicator(s)

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From: Bill "Bill" Tuthill
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 1991 21:13

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The world's three most important operating systems-- Unix, MS-DOS,
and MacOS-- all employ different methods for separating lines from
each other.  Unix uses linefeed only, MS-DOS uses carriage return
and linefeed, and MacOS uses carriage return only.

My question is this: do any standards specify how lines should be
kept apart?  That is, do any of these three operating systems have
any justification (other than space savings in the case of Unix and
MacOS) for doing things they way they did?

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Subject: newline indicator(s)
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