Subj : Re: Simple request...
To   : All
From : Artiken
Date : Tue Jun 14 2005 03:16 am

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

IIRC The Hard CR and Soft CR nomenclature was introduced by Word Perfect 
as a way to explain to non-ascii reading noobs what the word wrap 
feature was and how to over ride it. (Force a line wrap) WP explained 
that all word wrapped lines had a 'soft CR' imbeded into the control 
codes. If you wanted to force a line you would use a Hard CR.
So you just hit the Enter/Return key (0x0d) on the keyboard to force 
your words onto the next line. Auto word wraped lines were though of as 
having a soft CR.

I know it was a funky way of explaining word wrap, but it managed to 
give the average secretary using WP an explenation as to why the {Soft 
CR} {Hard CR} codes were in their documents when "view control codes" 
was enabled.

Artiken

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