Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!uninett.no!sn.no!nntp.uio.no!ubmac86.uio.no!user From: kolbjorn.aambo@ub.uio.no (Kolbjørn Aambø) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Word Process Anywhere Beta Testers Needed Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:31:51 +0200 Organization: UBO Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <6f3p9b$ntb@fridge.shore.net> <352440ab.3533423@news.eunet.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: ubmac86.uio.no Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11507 In article <352440ab.3533423@news.eunet.no>, toriw@online.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen) wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:52:27 +0000, Mick > uttered: > > >The whole \r\n double character nonsense is M$'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. > Can't you Word processor beta-test people just understand that this is a list for discussing BETA the language not beta-testing.