Re^3: Check for "unix2dos" (CRLF) in binary files

IIRC, the old MacOS (pre 10) text files were based on LF/CR.

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Re^4: Check for "unix2dos" (CRLF) in binary files by graff (Chancellor) on Sep 24, 2004 at 02:33 UTC
Actually, my recollection is that the pre-10 mac text files used just CR (no LF) -- this caused a lot of trouble for the unwary, because any unix or win/dos text process would slurp a whole mac text file as a single "line": there were no LF's to mark end-of-line. I sure don't miss the old macs.	[reply]