From:	Joe Wright <wrightj AT exis DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: A simple question ...
Date:	Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:11:08 -0500
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John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> Gorman Ho wrote:
> >
> > Hey guys.
> >
> > I just wanted to know how many char's a newline character ('\n') is.
> > Is it 2 (10 and 13) or just 1?
> 
> Inside your C program, it's 1.  In the operating system, it can be any
> of a number of things:
> 
> - In DOS, it's a CRLF pair.
> - In Unix, it's just a CR.
> - In Mac, it's something else (can't remember)
> 

Shame on you John.  In Unix '\n' is 0x0A, a linefeed.  '\r' is '0x0D',
the carriage return (CR).  But you knew that..

Joe

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