Windows and DOS are both perfectly happy with just '\n' (exception: Microsoft Telnet). Some *NIX systems need "\r\n". -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Underwood <runderwo@MAIL.WIN.ORG> To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 2:23 AM Subject: Re: Question >It depends on the terminal. Most terminals will interpret a line feed as >a CR/LF. The same holds true for a carriage return alone, in most cases. >If a carriage return follows a linefeed, most terminals will strip it as >well. > >> Are you sure windows and dos? >> Because I've used c++ made on a computer made in 1990 I think. And I've >> used it in windows and dos and all it needs is a \n. >> >> Stephen Wolfe wrote: >> > >> > > > Just curious but I have a newbie question. >> > > > What does the \r do? >> > > >> > > If I recall my line termination sequences correctly, both of these are >> > > from the age of teletypes, and the \n would (and still does) move the >> > > cursor down one line (but retain its position in character #'s) and the \r >> > > will actually return the cursor to the begining of the line. >> > > >> > > One without the other is messy :) >> > >> > as i'm sure someone else will say, unix text files only need the \n >> > (linefeed) at the end, whereas Windows (and DOS I think) use both the >> > \r\n (carriage return followed by a linefeed). Having just a \n will >> > work just fine on unix, but a Windows system, it would simply drop the >> > cursor 1 row down. In fact, having thr \r in unix files screws them >> > up..hence the need for the strip_string function that comes with oasis.. >> > >> > siv >> > >> > +------------------------------------------------------------+ >> > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | >> > | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | >> > +------------------------------------------------------------+ >> >> >> +------------------------------------------------------------+ >> | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | >> | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | >> +------------------------------------------------------------+ >> > > > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | > +------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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