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Author: Charles J. Daniels, aka chajadan
Email: chajadan at mail dot com
Date: 2007-08-01 14:49:32
Subject: Re: newline return character sequences
> > I notice in the downloaded .txt file that newlines are expressed as simply
> > a newline character (ascii decimal 10) rather than what would be standard on a
> > windows system (13 10). Is there a standand for this in place as to what you
> > want/need? I'm assuming you will be familiar with the difference between
> > /r/n and just /n on different systems, if not I can explain my question further.
> >
> > I would have checked if this issue was on the board before, but 500 messages and
> > no search function ;)
> >
> > --charlie
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> You're quite right that control-m control-j (
> ) is used for line breaks in Windows. In the Unix world, the standard is just control-j (
> ). It used to be the case that the standard among Macintoshes was just control-m (
).
>
> All of the project materials use just control-j, as in the Unix world. There's not really any technical benefit to one over the other, but there is a benefit to being consistent. The closest thing to an argument that I could make in favor of just control-j is that the major Internet protocols originated in Unix, and so the Unix way of doing things tends to be at least accommodated on most platforms.
>
> --Sean
Then that is how I shall do it. I have no keyboard way to insert an isolated newline, so I'll cut and paste.
--charlie