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CRLF was eventually adopted as the standard line ending for Network traffic, a decision which, in retrospect, is generally considered to be a mistake. However, this usage continued in DOS and Microsoft Windows , so it will likely remain into the foreseeable future.

In s, a line feed is interpreted as an instruction having the same effect on a Computer Terminal that CR-LF has on a printer. It was thought unnecessary to send printer sequences to Computer Display s. The C Programming Language , with origins in Unix, reflects this usage: in C, ''''
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''' is the escape sequence for ''newline''.

Apple Computer also simplified the CR-LF pair in their operating systems, choosing CR without LF. Apple's operating systems continued to use carriage return as a line ending until Mac OS X , which is partly based on Unix.


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