PSU uses emacs?

[Steve Holden]

"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
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> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:55:45PM +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
> |
[ ... ]
> | (shame's about to engulf me...).  I like :set expandtab always
> | on -- no tab/space confusion; I also like :set ff unix, so that my
> | scripts can be shared between Win and Unix machines (and why
> | waste one byte per line to tell a 'carriage' that is not there
> | to 'return' [to where?]...?!-).
>
> Exactly.  DOS/Windows never did operate from a teletype did it?  I
> suppose no one will ever figure out why a system that began on the
> teletype (Unix) doesn't use the extra character and a system that
> didn't (DOS/Windows) does.
>
My guess is that the Unix implementors realised that whether to include a CR
was a decision correctly left to the appropriate device driver. Whereas the
implementors of DOS didn't really understand such refinements, and decided
to put the CR in files so that any device could handle the output.

This is speculation, based on the philosophical attitudes I have observed in
the two groups concerned. 8^} Who designed DOS anyway, Gary Kildall wasn't
it?

regards
 Steve