RE: [OT] svn diff and native eol style

[Arild Fines <ar...@broadpark.no>]

Branko Cibej wrote:
> And silently curse Windows that got its
> convention from DOS that got it from CP/M that got it -- probably --
> from teletype transmission standards... and some research would probably
> show it all stems from some convention used by Summerian scribes, or
> something :-\

According to http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/18/91899.aspx, 
'the real question is not "Why do CP/M, MS-DOS, and Win32 use CR+LF as the line terminator?" but rather "Why did other people choose to differ from these standards documents and use some other line terminator?"'

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Re: [OT] svn diff and native eol style

[Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>]

Arild Fines wrote:

>Branko Cibej wrote:
>  
>
>>And silently curse Windows that got its
>>convention from DOS that got it from CP/M that got it -- probably --
>>from teletype transmission standards... and some research would probably
>>show it all stems from some convention used by Summerian scribes, or
>>something :-\
>>    
>>
>
>According to http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/18/91899.aspx, 
>'the real question is not "Why do CP/M, MS-DOS, and Win32 use CR+LF as the line terminator?" but rather "Why did other people choose to differ from these standards documents and use some other line terminator?"'
>  
>
Yes, you're right! After all, VMS uses CRLF too (actually, LF as the
start-of-line mark, and CR as the end-of-line mar, but it comes to the
same thing -- almost), and anyone who ignores VMS -- even to make
everyone's life simpler -- deserves any problems they have because of
it. :-)

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