From: benny AT crocodial DOT de (Benjamin Riefenstahl)
Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts
14 Jan 1998 17:21:57 -0800
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To: marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com
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marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com wrote:
> ... I
> always thought that the original intent was that \n would represent whatever
> the local newline character was, whether it was LF or something else. I have
> never seen this pairing broken, and I'm sure it was wreck havoc on many
> programs if it was changed.

While we are at the topic of history, actually Apple's own C compiler
for MacOS switches those two so that in that dialect \n *is* the text
file line delimiter. And yes this *does* "wreck havoc on many programs".
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