The following header lines retained to effect attribution: |Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:31:45 +0100 |From: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]> |Subject: Re: Side remarks about TeX input sequence |To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L <[log in to unmask]> |Reply-to: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project <[log in to unmask]> [SNIP] |At 11:08 +0100 2001/02/14, Bernd Raichle wrote: |> Nowadays stream oriented |>files are common, where a special character (^J or ^M) or a special |>combination of characters (^M^J) are used as end-of-line markers. |UNIX, MacOS & DOS (MSOS). |> 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 [SNIP] | Hans Aberg Randolph J. Herber, [log in to unmask], +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F, Mail Stop 318, Fermilab, Kirk & Pine Rds., PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500, USA. (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.) (Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)