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As a real old timer, I always understood that MSDOS adopted CR - LF and the '\' character rather than '/' so that AT&T wouldn't sue them for infringing Unix. Also for the early Mac and CR.
Commented Feb 16, 2010 on The Great Newline Schism at Coding Horror
The Great Newline Schism
Have you ever opened a simple little ASCII text file to see it inexplicably displayed as onegiantunbrokenline? Opening the file in a different, smarter text editor results in the file displayed properly in multiple paragraphs. The answer to this puzzle lies in our old friend, invisibl...
As a real old timer, I always understood that MSDOS adopted and the '\' character so that AT&T wouldn't sue them for infringing Unix. Also for the early Mac and
Commented Feb 16, 2010 on The Great Newline Schism at Coding Horror
The Great Newline Schism
Have you ever opened a simple little ASCII text file to see it inexplicably displayed as onegiantunbrokenline? Opening the file in a different, smarter text editor results in the file displayed properly in multiple paragraphs. The answer to this puzzle lies in our old friend, invisibl...
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