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Article #124601Re: \r\n vs. CRLF (was Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?)
From: Carl R. Friend
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:00
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Russell Schulz wrote:
>
> any Unix programs which use \r\n for CRLF are (probably accidentally)
> Unix-specific right there.
... But a carriage return follwed by a linefeed is the _correct_
way to do it. One initiates the carriage return motion and sends the
line feed so that the feed occurs during the carriage time.
If your machine is in perfect adjustment, no other "fillers"
should be required.
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