>There were also a few systems that used CHR(10)+CHR(13) (line feed followed by carriage return). The hard bit was visually speaking, the effect was indistiguishable from the CHR(13)+CHR(10) sequence if you simpy display the file -- it's when your text editor did strange things with the text (e.g. everything gets double-spaced and last character of each line or first character of each line gets "eaten") that you notice something is amiss.
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>And to think... all this confusion with just a "simple" text file...

And don't forget WordStar (and FoxPlus editor, IIRC, in some cases) which would put chr(141) (i.e. chr(13) with 7th bit set) as a "soft CR", i.e. a place where you could optionally wrap the paragraph without actually creating a new paragraph... which was confusing to no end, specially if you tried to write code generators...

I guess we're both old enough to remember those, eh?