Re: [OT] svn diff and native eol style

Arild Fines wrote:

>Branko Cibej wrote:
>
>
>>And silently curse Windows that got its
>>convention from DOS that got it from CP/M that got it -- probably --
>>from teletype transmission standards... and some research would probably
>>show it all stems from some convention used by Summerian scribes, or
>>something :-\
>>
>>
>
>According to http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/18/91899.aspx,
>'the real question is not "Why do CP/M, MS-DOS, and Win32 use CR+LF as the line terminator?" but rather "Why did other people choose to differ from these standards documents and use some other line terminator?"'
>
>
Yes, you're right! After all, VMS uses CRLF too (actually, LF as the
start-of-line mark, and CR as the end-of-line mar, but it comes to the
same thing -- almost), and anyone who ignores VMS -- even to make
everyone's life simpler -- deserves any problems they have because of
it. :-)

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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