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On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 22:48:49 -0500, Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>Which was my point in the first place about new-line standards. We all 
>know why its important to collapse \r\n into \n,  but why(?) in a 
>general way would this be the universal desired end? (rhetorical)  Your 
>example of byte-for-byte perfect copy is one good case (they are not). 
>Another might be controller code (maybe ancient) where the \r is 
>'required' and collapsing it to \n won't work on the device (tty, or 
>other).
>

	In ancient times, having \r and \n perform different actions were
almost mandated...

	Ever seen how a password prompt on a Teletype was handled? By using a
bare \r to overtype the input field with X, $, probably M, O, and 8 too...

{And I recall standard practice was to hit \r, to return the carriage, \n
for next line, and one RUBOUT to provide a delay while the carriage
returned to the left <G>}
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