Date   : Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:21:39 +0100
From   : beeb@... (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
Subject: Acorn newline sequence

* Rick Murray (rick@...) wrote:
> Of course, back then there was little need (and often not much
> possibility) for concern about being compatible with other systems. Can
> a native Beeb read CP/M discs? Can '80s home computers understand each
> others tapes? Was interoperability even a concern for many back then?

Well, the tape formats was a derivative of the standard CUTS wasn't it?
I suspect compatibility wasn't a big issue, unless that is the dev
of the early machines was done on non-acorn machines?

> The only oddity is the newline in the RISC OS command line is not the same
as in text files, as a simple *Spool will demonstrate.

The same is true on Linux; try the script command - you get the cr as
well as lf recorded.

Dave
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