In <caarmm9sayjpht9wa6fs69oubw_ypxfcdbwbpm3uzvrjb_ks...@mail.gmail.com>, on 10/24/2011 at 07:31 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> said:
>On 24 October 2011 18:20, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) ><[email protected]> wrote: And sent a corrected[1] version :-( >For some values of UNIX. Well, z/OS Unix uses NL and *bsd isn't certified as Unix. Is z/OS the only oddball, or are there others? >Logically distinct, how? CRLF is just X'0D0A' (for ASCII-like character sets). It is not intrinsically a line ending sequence, and can occur in systems where neither the CR nor the LF has any specific significance. It's like the difference between "my cat" and "Maine coon". Even if I own a Maine coon, not all Maine coons are mine, and even if I own a second cat, it might not be a Maine coon. [1] I normally work offline. Finagle decreed that I would be online between the time that I made the error and the time that I caught it :-( -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
