>>>>> "hendrik" == hendrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
hendrik> Just for historical record, this famous Microsoft
hendrik> "incompatibility" is actually a point in which they
hendrik> followed the official standard. ASCII was designed
hendrik> without a newline symbol; instead, it had a
hendrik> carriage-return -- which returned the teletype carriage
hendrik> to the beginning of the current line, permitting it to be
hendrik> overwritten, and a line feed character, which moved to
hendrik> the next line while leaving the carriage alone (thus
hendrik> effectively moving a cursor straight down).
Microsoft, also, initially adopted the standard that ^Z would mark the
end of the file. Apparently this was required (IIRC), because early
filesystems didn't store the file length anywhere, so the ^Z marker
was the only way to tell a reader when it got to the end of the file.
Fortunately, this standard is effectively dead now, and ^Z is only
used when receiving data from the console.
I think it is only a matter of time before the Windows text format
dies too.
Curiously, wordpad on Windows can read Unix format files, but notepad
can't.
--
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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