Subj : Simple request...
To   : Deuce
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Mon May 30 2005 06:39 pm

  Re: Simple request...
  By: Deuce to Time Warrior on Mon May 30 2005 11:57:00

 >  >  > Just for fun, ask what a "Hard CR" is and watch the flamefest begin.  
 >  >
 >  > Gee i dunno.... carriage(sp?) return (aka the hitting of the ENTER key)..
 >  >
 >  > Why would there be a flame fest provided by that answer? lol Or would it 
 >  > someone ASKING the question that starts it? lol
 > 
 > Well, I'm willing to bet that it's a CRLF since that's what internet message
 > use as a line delimiter.  Macs are the only think I know of that use a CR (A
 > maybe VAX... can't remember) for their text files.  But as to how such a thi
 > differs from a "soft" CR or if (since LF is the last char in the sequenc) it
 > should be a "Hard LF" or some such.  Just more of the qualifying things that
 > don't need it stuff.

You know, this might make sense if he'd said a "hard newline" or a "hard 
end-of-line" or something.  But a CR is a CR is a Carriage Return is an 
0x0d and there is nothing hard or soft about it.


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