Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!enme3!deraadt From: deraadt@enme3.ucalgary.ca (Theo Deraadt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: CR/LF (was Re: DME and vanishing text) Message-ID: <1705@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 05:46:12 GMT References: <89222.135727WTW101@PSUVM> <15874@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Reply-To: deraadt@enme3.UUCP (Theo Deraadt) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.tech Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 12 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.