Text differences (Was: The VAX is running

[Chuck Guzis]

On 5 Apr 2009 at 13:27, Fred Cisin wrote:


> New-line is not really standardized.
> Although the machines may all claim to be using ASCII,
> newline may be represented by
> CR LF,
> CR,
> LF,
> or LF CR (rarest)
> 
> The reasons are enough for a thread of its own.

The CDC STAR OS used US as an EOL character. It was useful on a batch-
input OS; one could organize a job with US, RS, GS and FS characters. 
Files consisting of groups of records consisting of units.  Makes 
sense--and odd that it wasn't more widely adopted.  One would 
logically assume that the matter of carriage control would be treated 
as an issue of formatting, not of delimiting information.

Cheers,
Chuck