Re: \r\n vs. CRLF (was Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?)

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From: Robert Billing
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 00:00

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In article <34de43f9...@news.innet.be>
           luc...@null.net "Luc Van der Veken" writes:

> What terminal was it again that needed a CR, an LF and x NULs in order
> not to eat the first x characters of the next line?

 Most of the earlier DecWriters. There was a location in low core (yes,
I *mean* core) on the PDP-11 which contained the number of nulls output
by the driver after a LF. This could be patched to suit your terminal.
Of course then along came RT-11 which obsoleted DOS (which was, by then
around version 10), and did it more elegantly.

 BTW did anyone else see DOS 9? IIRC Dec went from 8.8 to 10.0 in about
a week, and I only ever saw one copy of 9.

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Subject: Re: \r\n vs. CRLF (was Re: Why do we use '-- ' as a .sig separator ?)
Date: 1998/02/07
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