CRLF (was Re: text file from Linux to windows.)
- From: Andrew Reid <reidac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:10:40 -0400
On Thursday 29 May 2008 21:28, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Since 90% of all computers are DOS/Windows, and got that method from
CP/M, which did it that way back in 1976/77, your "gratuitously
different" comment is absurdly wrong.
Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype machines,
where you needed to issue separate carriage return and line feed
characters to end a line - to i) physically return the carriage to the
beginning of the line, and ii) feed a line of paper (turn the platten).
(Anybody else out there old enough to remember when ASR33s where THE
standard i/o device? :-)
I don't recall it being THE standard, but I recall that numerous
research Unix servers used to have DECwriter consoles as late as
the mid-1980s.
These had one small advantage over modern consoles, namely, they
were pretty loud. Sysadmins could use this to simulate psychic
powers -- when the server wrote an error message to its console,
you could hear it, subtly but distinctly, from several rooms
away. You could then announce to your less-attentive colleagues,
"there's a server problem," and they'd never figure out how
you knew.
Not that I ever did that. Purely hypothetical, you understand.
-- A.
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