Re: LF: WHAT THE?!?!?!?


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Re: LF: WHAT THE?!?!?!?



Jake Robb wrote:

> > > PS.  Does anyone know why PCs use Line feeds (ASCII 10) and Macs use
> > > carriage returns (ASCII 13)?  it's really annoying when transferring
> > > text...pc-to-mac gives unknown characters, mac-to-pc gives everything on
> > > 1 line.  I use a Mac, but have to transfer to PC for compiling, so,
> > > well, ya know...
> >
> > PC has ascii 10+ascii 13 in a textfile when there is a line feed.
> 
> Right.  The questions was, Why?
> 
> --
> Jake Robb

Don't know why?  Probably the mac people wanted to make it simpler?
but I've made a program called HTML Fixer to change a mac linefeed to
IBM CR-LF pair so the file is readable.  It's avalible at
<http://www.paradox.net/homepages/poole/winsoft.html>

-- 
Christopher Poole
poole.christopher@paradox.net
http://www.paradox.net/homepages/poole
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