Re: Linefeeds

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: Linefeeds
Date: 06:57 on 27 Jun 2005

Martin Ebourne wrote:
> 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.

Ummm, could you elaborate.  ASM fine in the explanation.

> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
>

There's stuff above here

Martin Ebourne 23:49 on 26 Jun 2005
- Jarkko Hietaniemi 06:57 on 27 Jun 2005
  - Martin Ebourne 11:04 on 27 Jun 2005
    - too deep to show

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