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From: deraadt@enme3.ucalgary.ca (Theo Deraadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: CR/LF (was Re: DME and vanishing text)
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Date: 13 Aug 89 05:46:12 GMT
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In article <15874@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) writes:
>Why couldn't they have done it proper? Lf is a line feed! and CR is a
>carriage return.  It's a pain when programs start sticking out LF's
>in the middle of lines.  Such programs usualy crap out on my terminal
>(he who lives without a terminal for editing is not alive).

Using two line terminators is braindead. Just because some I** guy
decided to do things that way a long time ago, does not mean it makes
sense. Might as well ask for ^Z terminated files.. gad.. make me puke.