At 7:01 PM -0600 6/21/01, Otto Stolz wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:40:22 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>> The concern with respect to IBM is that one of the world's largest
>> corporations, with thousands of patents, legions of programmers,
>> billions of dollars in revenue, and resources pouring out of every
>> orifice is somehow unable to handle documents where lines end with
>> carriage returns and line feeds, as documents do on every non-IBM
>> system on the planet.
>
>Not true. There are lots of non-IBM systems on this planet having
>other line separators than "carriage returns and line feeds", on
>the other hand, there are lots of IBM systems on this planet that
>comply with this very convention.
>
My language apparently confused people, I apologize. I'm certainly
aware that Macs end lines with carriage returns and Unix boxes end
lines with linefeeds. My point probably should have been phrased,
"Every computer on the planet that's not made IBM only uses one or
both of the two characters CR and LF to end lines."
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