John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My, what a bunch of parvenus. SIP got it from SMTP, SMTP got it from > Telnet. Back in the 1960s we all used <CR><LF> because on a > mechanical model 33 or 35 Teletype, CR really returned the carriage, > LF really advanced the platen, and you needed both. I first ran into > CR/LF on a PDP-6 in about 1968, but I know it wasn't new then. Dates back to 1930s teleprinters, I think. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first.