At 15:41 -0600 2001/02/14, Randolph J. Herber wrote: >|> In >|>the past and even nowadays there exist other file types where the >|>end-of-line marker is not part of the file (i.e. a special character), >|>e.g. files with a fixed-width record (aka line) length. > >|Today, which ones? > > Compaq OpenVMS and IBM OS/MVS are two examples Are these OS's in continued widespread use, or are they dying? -- The thing is that without those OS line separator convetions, one can decide that a line separator should be \l, \r, or a \r\l (as in Java), and that would be platform independent. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>