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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Porter)
Wed Oct 5 22:36:12 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 02:04:47 +0100
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From: Jeff Porter <sydporte@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
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On Wed, 5 Oct 1994, Sarr Blumson wrote:
>
> A colleague of mine wanted to do some layout control, so he did it by hand and
> put it all inside a <pre>...</pre>.
>
> Unfortunately (for me) he did it on a Mac, so the lines end only with ASCII
> carriage returns. As a result, the Unix browsers (I've tried Mosaic, Chimera
> and Lynx) all treat it as a single line.
>
> Does anybody not think this is a bug? Whose bug is it?
I don't think it is a bug, really. It is simply a difference in the
way different machines treat the end of a line.
There are lots of programs that will convert CR -> CR/LF and vice-versa.
On the mac I think that BBEdit will do the job.
// Jeff Porter
// Office of Systems Development, University of Kansas
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