Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!Norway.EU.net!not-for-mail From: toriw@online.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.help,ne.general,comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:10:05 GMT Organization: Viewpoint as (non-representative) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <352440ab.3533423@news.eunet.no> References: <6f3p9b$ntb@fridge.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.1.240.157 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.java.gui:12254 comp.lang.java.help:20747 comp.lang.beta:11505 On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:52:27 +0000, Mick uttered: >The whole \r\n double character nonsense is M$'s fault anyway, isn't it? It's more like a "printer-centric" view; in ASCII, CR moves the head to the beginnig of the line, and LF "feeds" a line, as the name indicates. Why they didn't change this to a mere LF (like on UNIX) when they adopted the ANSI terminal type for DOS? Who knows. -- "Between our dreams and actions lies this world." - Bruce Springsteen, "Dead Man Walking" Tor Iver Wilhelmsen toriw@online.no