On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Nemo wrote:
Hhhmmm... This begs the historical question: When did LF replace CR/LF in UNIX?
Unix has always used NL as the terminator :-)
<CR><LF> was the line terminator in DEC operating systems that grew up around the same time as Unix. CP/M and MS-DOS inherited that from them since those systems were developed, in part, using cross compilers running on DEC gear with DEC OSes. Unix came from the Multics world where LF was used as the line terminator... Thankfully, neither CP/M nor MS-DOS picked up DEC's RMS...