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  3. February 2002

Re: Unix file to PC, weird LF-CR

From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>

> Actually Unix and Win are both standard compliant. The ASCII
> standard when it came out around 1965 also allowed a single
> chars as a "newline" character. If you elected to use a single
> character it had to be the LF (value 10, x0A). It is the Mac that
> is "goofy".
>

to muddy the waters a bit more, here is how SGML (and therefore
HTML) looks at this:

"Theoretically, the SGML declaration for HTML specifies that line feed (LF,
ASCII code 10 in decimal) acts as a record (line) start character and
carriage return (CR, ASCII code 13 in decimal) as a record end character."

so, a line has both a beginning character (LF) and an ending character (CR).

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