> I wonder how that worked on the first Unix systems? Probably the same way it still works on today's Unix systems: it converts NL to CR+NL on output. See the

> I wonder how that worked on the first Unix systems? Probably the same way it still works on today's Unix systems: it converts NL to CR+NL on output. See the manpage for the stty command: Output settings: [-]onlcr translate newline to carriage return-newline