From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: CR & LF
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2604
Posted: Wed Sep  8 11:48:47 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 04:54:41 1982
References: sri-unix.3132

There are, of course, lots of headaches caused by using LF as newline,
because LF also has a useful formatting function.  (It's the fastest
way to go down a line, and the only way to scroll, on a typical CRT
terminal, for example.)  It is unfortunate that the NL character chosen
was not some other control character, such as US.  But there are now
a good many programs out there that assume that to get the linefeed
character, they use \n.  Too bad there isn't a \l escape in C for
people that want linefeed to use.