Re: Linefeeds

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> Newlines are hard, and it's not UNIX's fault.

In fact, UNIX followed the recommendations of the original ASCII standard
that if a single character was used for a line separator it should be
linefeed. Just about everyone else picked carriage return or both. Except
DEC, of course. RSX text files had a one or two byte length, followed by
an optional two byte line number, and the records themselves were either
padded to a multiple of 80 bytes or jammed together with no separator, and
blocks were either padded with nulls or lines could span block boundaries.

You have to look at the file type and mode to see which was which.

To read or write text files from Forth I gave up and called the Fortran
runtime.

• 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
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