Re: [MacPerl] Yet more on linefeeds.

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

>
>But I am not interested enough (today) to boot Virtual PC and run my own
>tests.  :)
>

That ought to be done! It's just possible that the line ends are in fact
determined at a system level well below the perl parser. There were once
system level I/O calls which read to "end of line". AOS, CP/M, and VMS did
things like that but I donno about MSDOS, WindozeXX, BIOS's, and CMOS's. In
the MacOS the PBRead system call has provision for "newline" mode which
surely looks for \r, the correct character for the system at hand.

It would be interesting to discover that Windoze running on a Mac behaved
differently.

It could even be that different manufacturer's Wintel boxes behave
differently.

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