[X-Unix] Why didn't Apple change the line break??

Craig A. Finseth fin at finseth.com
Wed Sep 22 10:28:09 PDT 2004


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   CR LF was probably the first example of Microsoft bloat.
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Sorry, but it was inherited from CP/M.  At least Microsoft got rid of
the ^Z at the end of a text file and padding to 128 bytes (which was
due to CP/Ms sector-level file sizing).

Craig



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