From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!ech
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizar
Title: Re:  instead of \n - (nf)
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.523
Posted: Tue Sep  7 23:44:19 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 04:10:33 1982

#R:sri-unix:-312300:whuxlb:900005:000:252
whuxlb!ech    Sep  7 23:23:00 1982

Actually, the USASCII standard specifies that ^J is the newline character;
UNIX has simply conformed with that standard since the earliest days, with
"map cr to nl on input, map either to cr-nl on output" provided as a user
convenience.

=Ned Horvath=