cr and return

erik hansen erikhans08 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 1 19:40:00 EDT 2003


--- Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> > wrote:
> > replace "ARBITRARY_DELETE_FLAG"&cr \
> > with empty in tList
---
> > isn't a return a carriage return and...
> > a form feed? 
--- 
> Internally, "cr" and "return" both signify the
> Unix line ending (ASCII 10,
> or linefeed).  Macs use ASCII 13, which is the
> true "return" character, and
> Windows uses return+linefeed (ASCII 13 + ASCII
> 10).
> 
> When reading or writing a file as text, the
> enginew does line-ending
> translation automatically.  But within the
> program, line endings use the
> Unix convention.

thanks,
so, there are no cross platform problems
with using either return or cr?

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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