Re: LF: WHAT THE?!?!?!?
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Re: LF: WHAT THE?!?!?!?
Jake Robb wrote:
> > > PS. Does anyone know why PCs use Line feeds (ASCII 10) and Macs use
> > > carriage returns (ASCII 13)? it's really annoying when transferring
> > > text...pc-to-mac gives unknown characters, mac-to-pc gives everything on
> > > 1 line. I use a Mac, but have to transfer to PC for compiling, so,
> > > well, ya know...
> >
> > PC has ascii 10+ascii 13 in a textfile when there is a line feed.
>
> Right. The questions was, Why?
>
> --
> Jake Robb
Don't know why? Probably the mac people wanted to make it simpler?
but I've made a program called HTML Fixer to change a mac linefeed to
IBM CR-LF pair so the file is readable. It's avalible at
<http://www.paradox.net/homepages/poole/winsoft.html>
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Christopher Poole
poole.christopher@paradox.net
http://www.paradox.net/homepages/poole
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