1. Re: MLE newline

Michael Sabal wrote:

> Usually a newline character in DOS is ASCII 10 & ASCII 13; However in an MLE,
> Microsoft in all their wisdom decided to change it to ASCII 13 & ASCII 10.  Don't
> ask me why they did this, but that's what you need.  So to add it, say:
>
>   mleText = mleText & "Hello, world." & 13 & 10
>   setText(mleBox, mleText)
>

I read somewhere (I can't remember where) that Microsoft did this because of
 some strange bug in Win 95.  So instead of fixing the bug, they took it upon
 themselves to change the standard ASCII 10 & ASCII 13 around

Go figure.


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