Re: FN-FORUM: formmail (why do we use it?)

date posted 13th June 2003 21:27

>
> Unlike end-of-file, there's no ASCII character for end-of-line. What there
> *is* is carriage-return (ASCII 13, ^M, \r) and line-feed (ASCII 10, ^J, \n),
> both of which seem to have been named back when people still used
> typewriters. MS-DOS and Windows treat these terms literally, so a CR
> literally moves the cursor to the left hand end of the current row, and LF
> literally moves the cursor down one line; hence the end-of-line sequence for
> Windows is \r\n.
> Unix-alikes use \n only for some reason, and Macs use \r only for some other
> reason.
>

Er thanks for that, Nick. I'll try that as a mantra for my insomnia



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