Format of options file

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 09:52:53AM +0000, RS wrote:

> Essentially you seem to be saying I can't have a CR in a Linux text file 
> because it is non-standard.  It seems a strange standard that prevents 
> data interchange rather than facilitates it.

Yes, it is strange that Microsoft chose a non-standard line ending
convention. In this case though we can't really blame them as they were
just copying CP/M. CP/M chose its line ending convention in 1974, a few
years after Unix chose its convention.

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