Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hate to think I'd ever defend M$, but the CR-LF is a DOS thing, which
was created by Digital Research in the first place. It may even have
been in CPM (?).

Adam Lang wrote:
>
> It is because Microsoft "embraced and extended" end of lines.  Unix only
> uses one character to end lines (either LF or CR ... can not recall).  Goofy
> assed MS uses CRLF to denote end of line.
>
>

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