Re: [BLACKBOX] Control codes CR and LF

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:49:29 -0000

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>
> Sorry, but I think the above comment is perpetuating the confusion.
>
>
> The BlackBox documentation does not refer to ASCII files. In these
> files
> 0A (LF) may, depending on the
> operating system and program, be ignored, be an end-of-line marker, or
> be part of an
> end-of-line marker.
>
> In BlackBox Texts the BB documentation applies, and states that 0A is
> never used.

and that is the way it should be. CRLF are relics of the teletype days, long
gone, and the command line mentality. One of the declared aims of the Oberon
user interface design was to get beyond that.

I guess the only reasonable modern use of them would be to send a text to a
line-printer, if such a thing still exists.

B

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