Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl bugs?

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 5:14 -0400 6/24/99, Joshua Juran wrote:
>Yeah, I think it's a bad idea to put printer instruction codes in a file
>instead of device-independent content also.  (That way, you can just dump
>the file to the printer instead of using a very simple printing utility
>that would perform the minimal processing.)  But I think it was also
>foolish for the Mac to use a newline that no other system (that I'm aware
>of) uses.  The early incarnation of "Think different", I guess.  In any
>case, we now have a portability problem.

It's perfectly sensible:  CR is what the key the Steves typed which was
called RETURN emitted.  And was copied unchanged into the Apple I and later
text files.

(The LF or the CR-LF pair were also sensible in the portions of the dark
ages when they were picked, although plain LF made some extra work for the
drivers or the higher software.  Now, about ^Z being special in a file....)

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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