* Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk> [02-06-03 01:56]:
zentara <zentara@zentara.net> writes:
I think it would be better to ask why Windows does it with CRLF? Mac uses CR, so why would Windows waste all those bits?
Think back to the old teletypes and typewriters. CR moved the carriage back to column 1 and LF advanced the paper. So the computer had to send both. As it took longer for the carriage to move than for the paper to advance the CR was sent first.
Because the reliability was so poor, we always send <cr><cr><lf>. Beware, probably 80% of the computer world does not realize that the computer's grandfather was a teletype machine. -- Patrick Shanahan http://wahoo.no-ip.org Registered Linux User #207535 icq#173753138 @ http://counter.li.org