Re: cool 7.5 features

[stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)]

chngai@cs.cuhk.hk (Ngai Chi Ho) writes:
>Another point: Even for a text file, UNIX uses LF for the end of line,
>Apple (both II and Mac) uses CR, while MS-DOS uses CR _and_ LF. (so
>stupid!)  When I open an MS-DOS text file using TeachText, LF's show up
>as squares.  But if I use AFE to convert the file, I can get rid of the
>stupid 2-byte EOL.

	There are good reasons for the existence of both CR and LF.  MSDOS is,
quite frankly, the proper usage of those control characters according to
ASCII.  I think you're forgetting that not only does the *Standard* specify
what control characters exist, but it also specifies proper uses for them.
	If you want to call anyone stupid, it's not MS-DOS.  For all of the
other faults, this is one that they got right.

	On the same note about standards violations, I have actually seen
systems that use BS for what it was intended for -- character overprinting.
DEL is the key that destroys previously typed characters.  Apple is not the
only group to f*ck this one up, either, though.
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