From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Lepreau@Utah-20@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: CR & LF
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3132
Posted: Mon Sep  6 15:29:22 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 06:21:53 1982

From: Jay Lepreau 
Date:  3 Sep 1982 0539-MDT
Nope, if you only use a single char as line terminator it has to be LF, not CR,
because a lone CR has a very reasonable and useful formatting function whereas
a LF does not-- certainly not in practice anyway.  And it's the CRLF pair which
is the line terminator in those other systems (and FTP), not CR itself.

It's the 2 vs 1 chars which REALLY make for porting trouble, not what the
actual chars are.  Seeks really blow it then.
-Jay Lepreau
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