On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Michael Simons wrote: >Now that we're on the subject, anyone want to clear something up for >me? Why exactly do we have all of the \r's in there in the first place? >What system's require the use of them? When I took C/C++ I never used >them for any of my project. They're the carriage return in the the carriage-return line-feed pair that the telnet standard mandates. Unix stores them as \n so CircleMUD loads them into memory as \r\n to readily send them over the telnet line. DOS/Windows use \r\n in files, hence the dos2unix converters. -- George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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