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Re: MLE newline

• Posted by Quality <quality at ANNEX.COM> Jan 01, 1999
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I have to agree with Lucius,

The sequence known as "CR/LF" (CarriageReturn/LineFeed) is just that...
CR (&13) followed by LF (&10).

I do know of a few DOS text applications that simply use &13 *without* &10.

Where exactly are you getting files with the LF/CR sequence from ?



-----Original Message-----
From: Lucius Hilley III <lhilley at CDC.NET>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: MLE newline


>Hello Michael,
>        I do believe that it has always been {13, 10} in DOS.
>Unix style is just {10} and DOS/Windows has been {13, 10}.
>You might want to try reading some of your text files in using binary
>mode.
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>Lucius L. Hilley III    lhilley at cdc.net
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>On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:53:49 +-900, Michael Sabal <mjs at OSA.ATT.NE.JP> 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)
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Michael J. Sabal
>>mjs at osa.att.ne.jp
>>http://home.att.ne.jp/gold/mjs/index.html