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Sunday March 25 2007, @09:47PM

UNIX uses '\n'

Windows uses '\r\n'

Who though that one up?

(Yes, I'm aware some other systems use '\r' alone. Those systems aren't used to host enterprise messaging applications).

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Exchange Work? (Score:2)

by eno2001 (527078)

Sounds like a pain. I haven't touched Exchange since 5.0 and even then it was with a ten foot pole and a gas mask. ;P Or are you dealing with another system that runs on the 'doze?
Because everyone still uses line printers (Score:1)

by squiggleslash (241428)

and still did in 1981... no monitors then!
To make matters worse, despite the Internet being built upon Unix, it's CRLF that's won the day in most of the Internet's RFCs. Email, USENET news, FTP in ASCII mode, all use CRLF to delimit lines.
Wikipedia? (Score:1)

by dthable (163749)

While I don't believe everything I read there...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRLF#History [wikipedia.org]