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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: getline() problem
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Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> writes:
[...]
> Windows text files have 13,10 as a newline sequence, not just 10 as in
> Linux etc.
>
> This dates back to at least CP/M where the byte stream in the file
> exactly matched the one you would send to your CRT or printer, and a 
> line feed really did move the roller but not the print head.
>
> I have a vague feeling that Apple might use 10,13 - certainly I've met
> it somewhere in the past.

Versions of MacOS before version X (10) used CR as a line terminator.
OS X, since it's Unix-based, uses LF.

> The point of text mode is to allow a program to ignore these
> differences by allowing the runtime to handle them.
>
> It's not 100%.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */