Re: Linefeeds

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: Linefeeds
Date: 23:49 on 26 Jun 2005

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:06 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> I'm on a development team for an application -- a network listener
> with a bunch of arbitrary purpose behind it -- where, mysteriously,
> for reasons undiscovered, someone got \r\n backwards.  It issues line
> breaks as \n\r.

Probably not the reason here, but that's the Acorn line break. There's a
good reason for it being that way round: it saved several bytes and a
quite a few machine cycles on the old BBC micro.

Cheers,

Martin.

There's stuff above here

David Champion 20:06 on 25 Jun 2005
- peter (Peter da Silva) 01:39 on 26 Jun 2005
- Martin Ebourne 23:49 on 26 Jun 2005
  - Jarkko Hietaniemi 06:57 on 27 Jun 2005
    - too deep to show

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