Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/29/08 19:35, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 29 May 2008 05:26:43 pm L.V.Gandhi wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have made a text file in Linux using echo and cat commands. When I
>>>> open the file in note pad, I find files are not having line break, but
>>>> having a character in place of line break. Is there any way in echo
>>>> and cat commands usage to put windows line break?
>>>>
>>> Windows happens to end lines in a way that's gratuitously different
>>> from the rest of the world. Check out the tofrodos package.
>>>
>>
>> Since 90% of all computers are DOS/Windows, and got that method from
>> CP/M, which did it that way back in 1976/77, your "gratuitously
>> different" comment is absurdly wrong.
>>
> Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype machines,
> where you needed to issue separate carriage return and line feed
> characters to end a line - to i) physically return the carriage to the
> beginning of the line, and ii) feed a line of paper (turn the
> platten). (Anybody else out there old enough to remember when ASR33s
> where THE standard i/o device? :-)
>
> CR+LF is also required in most Internet protocols.
> This is one of the surprising areas, where the Microsoft products get
> things right, and the Unix world messes up.
>
> There are some good historical references at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/EOLstory.txt
> http://www.w3.org/TR/newline
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
>
maybe someone allready answerd but ...
unix default line brake is ASCII 10 and windows is 13.
You can use unix2dos or tofrodos to change it.
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