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Re:Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad by mark-r on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:00PM (#17025045)
The standard line ending of the '70s was CR/LF, because the printers commonly used as interactive terminals required them both. I wonder how that worked on the first Unix systems?
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Re:Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad by cesarb on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @09:31PM (#17026806)
> 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
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