Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and Alpha, "Illegal character \012" SOLVED!

[bart.mediamind@Ping.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:12:53 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:

>I am sure that if we could go back in time and slap Steve and Steve around,
>we could have had them use \012 as newline in the beginning, but I don't
>think that is going to happen.

It's not just computers.

Traditionally, printers had enough on just a chr(13), that is, a CR. The
Mac stuck to that tradition. It's Unix that broke with it.

I think superstition has a something to do with this. Maybe the number
13 was chosen, because the return key is as important as a control
character can get: you can't get around it. And in Unix, they might have
picked 10 instead of 13, when given the choice between the two, for
exactly the same reason. "Oh no, not 13!". Such is life. :-)

Anybody knows a source to back this up?

	Bart.

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