5 Sep
2017
5 Sep
'17
2:41 a.m.
CR by itself could be used for overstrike (e.g. if you wanted to underline
words). Faster than char, backspace, overstrike-char if you wanted lots
of this. LF by itself, not so much. Could've been if there was an inverse
linefeed.
On Sep 4, 2017, at 1:30 PM, ron minnich
<rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
using cr/lf as end of line also introduced all kinds of problems on the DEC OSes I used,
to wit, what do
CR alone
LF alone
and LF/CR
mean? It was just a pain in the neck. I was grateful to get to an OS that was sensible
and just used LF.