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Can't understand why Window still uses CRLF line endings. Just to be different?
by tbob 8y ago
Can't understand why Window still uses CRLF line endings. Just to be different?
- vbezhenar 8y agoWhy not? If something works, why break it? HTTP uses CRLF as well. Should we redesign it?
- cesarb 8y ago> HTTP uses CRLF as well. Should we redesign it? We did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2
- ksk 8y agoBecause thats what people did on serial terminals, which preceeded CP/M which preceeded Windows. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7812142/how-to-toggle-cr-lf-in-gnu-screen https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7812142/how-to-toggle-cr...
- kbumsik 8y agoBackward compability really matters. Windows has been always obsessed with compability. Guys in MS keeps max 255 characters long path just because of backward compability. Right after Windows give up CRLF line endings, it will be immediate compability disaster.