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> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/