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From: Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: BlueJ Coding Help
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On 2013-08-31 17:30, Jukka Lahtinen allegedly wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> writes:
>>> The method System.out.println always adds a linefeed 
> 
>>   the system's line separator
> 
>>>                                                     at the end of the
>>> output, and you add one yourself with the \n.
> 
>>   "\n" might not be the system's line separator.
> 
> True, but is there a system where it doesn't cause a linefeed?
> For example, in the MS systems where the normal line separator is \r\n,
> a lone \n moves the cursor to the next line. And when the println method
> ends the output with \r\n, the cursor ends up at the beginning of the
> next line after that. It doesn't really matter that there was no
> carriage return before the first linefeed.

Macintoshes, pre-OS X if I'm not mistaken, used \r (carriage return) as
the line separator.