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 LepreauDate: 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 -------