Perfect! thank you! It's much clearer for me now.
Paul On Sunday, July 7, 2002, at 06:20 , Martin Costabel wrote: > Individual . . wrote: > [] >> Anyway on some systems, to get the same effect that you're used to on >> the mac, the text editor program needs to write "newline" plis >> "linefeed" (or was it "return") .. anyway, this is extremely muddled >> in my head. Maybe someone else can clarify. > > OK, I'll bite. > There are these two control characters, one (CR) originally meaning > that you want to continue your text in the first column, the other (LF) > meaning that you want to continue on the next line. > > CR: "carriage return", ASCII char 13 (hex 0d), Ctrl-M, C code "\r" > LF: "line feed", ASCII char 10 (hex 0a), Ctrl-J, C code "\n" > > Now, if you remember those things called typewriters, you didn't do two > things to go to the next line (maybe you did with the first models, but > even I don't remember those). On the mechanical ones I remember, you > had a lever to the right that you used to push the carriage to the > left, and at the same time some gear turned and shifted the paper so > that you continued on the next line. On the electrical ones from which > we all inherited the computer keyboards, there was only one RETURN key > (actually there were also keys that did only CR and only LF, but you > didn't need them for normal writing). This is why UNIX and the Mac use > only one control character to do CR/LF: > > UNIX uses only LF, the Mac uses only CR, and DOS uses both CR and LF. > > -- Martin > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > We have stuff for geeks like you. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek We have stuff for geeks like you. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners