From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 09:08:31 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] Line Terminators in Text Files [Was: Re: Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - Unearthed!] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Dave Horsfall 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 :-) 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: