Generally, (at least in theory, under Perl 5.6, &c.) "\n" means "whatever makes a new line," and not necessarily "an ASCII LF character." "\n" could very well translate to \012 (Unix -- ASCII's "linefeed" char), \015 (MacOS < 10 -- ASCII's "carriage return" char), or \015\012 (MS-DOS/Windows -- CRLF)...

Of course, this relies on a lot of magic, like binmode disciplines, all working as they should, so it's quite possible that some "\r\n" sequences could slip in despite it all... :-) The joys of relying on the cutting edge.

#!/Applications/Utilities/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
no bytes;
require v5.6.5;
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