On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 20:38 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 19:24 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > A line _should_ be terminated by a single character. What that character > > is is a somewhat arbitrary choice, given that the ASCII table doesn't > > have an end-of-line (EOL) character, just CR and LF and ASCII was what > > was there the play with. UNIX went with NL, OS/9 and Macs went with CR, > > and DOS went with "I'm too dumb to translate text delimiters into > > printer control actions", thus its CR/NL overspeak. > > Considering that the display of text files is still done over terminals > where the ability to return to the beginning of the same line and > overwrite, is a useful feature, there's value in the end of line having > separate line feed and return characters. Not all display of text is of > static text. I couldn't agree less. The whole root of this problem is mixing up two completely separate concepts: how to mark an end of line, and how to display text on some device. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
