Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 14:15:15 -0500
   From: Frank Speiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   In Perl, this is 5.x running on a Unix environment, what does the
   newline (\n) mean literally. Is it the Unix standard <lf> or is it
   <cr><lf>?

\n is platform dependent.  To generate <cr><lf> on a Unix Perl, use \r\n.

Or you can play games with $\.  See perlvar.

--kag

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