From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] Line Terminators in Text Files [
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:06:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MbSa3YxkkKdYUj01R0C-cnm0Bv6d+dAsBtEhHCegL4Qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Nemo wrote:
>>
>> Hhhmmm... This begs the historical question: When did LF replace CR/LF
>>> in UNIX?
>>>
>>
>> Unix has always used NL as the terminator :-)
>
>
> <CR><LF> was the line terminator in DEC operating systems that grew up
> around the same time as Unix. CP/M and MS-DOS inherited that from them
> since those systems were developed, in part, using cross compilers running
> on DEC gear with DEC OSes. Unix came from the Multics world where LF was
> used as the line terminator... Thankfully, neither CP/M nor MS-DOS picked
> up DEC's RMS...
>
> Warner
>
The fun story on that Warner is after years of dogged defense of RMS, when
C was written for VMS, Cutler had to add Stream I/O. The moment is was
released, much (?most?) of customer base (including a lot of internal folks
like the compiler runtime and DB folks) switched to using it. It was so
much easier. I never heard Dave back down, but it I used to smile when I
saw the statistics.
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2017-09-03 20:06 Clem Cole [this message]
2017-09-03 21:42 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-04 17:29 ` Paul Winalski
2017-09-04 18:34 ` Clem Cole
2017-09-04 20:28 ` ron minnich
2017-10-01 17:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
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