[Gllug] vi question

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 20:39, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> output was common).  *nix systems use Line Feed but for no very good
> reason, DOS format text files use both together.

As does TELNET, and most protocols, if not all of them.

Of course, most of the protocols deliberately do this because it's
easier to translate *from* these to a local line termination, and, in
the case of TELNET, it was easier then to specify a seperate,
teletype-style, interpretation to CR and LF.

But the point being, it's not just DOS, and it's quite possibly a
perfectly sensible reason.

Dave.


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