From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@censoft.com (Greg Haerr)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:57:31 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] Why is \n 012?
References: <20030309032000.GD34634@wantadilla.lemis.com>
Message-ID: <040b01c2e5f0$03000580$6401a8c0@gregnewport>

> A thing that has puzzled me almost for ever is why the newline
> character in C is 012 and not 015.  Does anybody have any insight?

Well, my take on this is that C was developed with UNIX,
of course, and UNIX early on decided to use a single
character rather than a two-char (CRLF) sequence for
end-of-lines.  So, since the CR was already in use for 
the leading char in the two-char sequence, it made it a lot
easier to use the LF character for the single newline, so
programs wouldn't always have to be checking a second
character...

Regards,

Greg