Carriage return and line feed (Re: [Techtalk] get rid of "^M" in a file)

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:25:11PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
maria thought:
> So the files I have been looking at were actually created on a mac, and 
> seem to only have the ^M.  If I remove the ^M I just get one big glob of 
> text.

That's the other bit of the picture.  There are three ways to terminate
lines and each is used by one of Mac, MS and *NIX.  Mac uses carriage
return, *NIX uses line feed and MSDOS and successors uses both...
 
> Mary wrote:
> >
> >MS-DOS format text files have lines ending in two characters: carriage
> >return followed by line feed. (Some internet protocols including HTTP
> >follow this convention too.) UNIX format text files have lines ending in
> >one character, the line feed character. (According to [1] carriage
> >return takes the cursor all the way to the left, and line feed takes it
> >down a line. Line feed has both functions on UNIX.)

Conor
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