![]() Would such a change be possible? Likely not, it would break the world. Why? For starters, Microsoft finally updated Notepad to handle text files that use LF. Saving a single byte EVERY LINE was a huge deal for both storage and transmission.įast-forward to 2018 and it's maybe time for Windows to also switch to just using LF as the EOL character for Text Files. Unix used just a single LF over CRLF and has since the beginning, likely because systems like Multics started using just LF around 1965. Mac OS used CR for years until OS X switched to LF. Windows uses CRLF because DOS used CRLF because CP/M used CRLF because history. Operating systems in the late 70s all used CR LF together literally because they were interfacing with typewriters/printers on the daily. Two actions, and for years, two control characters.Įvery operating system seems to encode an EOL (end of line) differently. The carriage moves on the X axes.Īnd Line Feed or LF is the non-printable control character that turns the Platen (the main rubber cylinder) by one line. However, a Carriage Return moves the carriage back but doesn't advance the paper by one line. The Carriage Return or CR was a non-printable control character that would reset the typewriter to the beginning of the line of text. ![]() The paper on a typewriter rides horizontally on a carriage. Because Mac OS X is a meld of Unix and the older Mac OS, in some cases text files have carriage returns and in others they have line feeds. In Mac OS X, the situation is more complicated. ![]() What's a Carriage and why is it Returning? Carriage Return Line Feed WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!?! Similarly, some Mac OS applications need to see carriage return characters at the ends of lines, and may treat Unix-format files as one long line.
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