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From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ctrl-M]
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:12:02 -0700
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To: freddie <freddie@tumsan.fi>
Cc: Shawn Ashlee <shawn@ashlee.info>, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org

freddie wrote:
> the \r is your culprit. that creates a ctrl-m. \n doesnt. im going to 
> assume \r is CR/LF and \n is just LF...

   \r will simply generate a ctrl-m ... wherever in the line it is.
If you put it at the end of a line, the implicit \n will get printed
after it (resulting in the well-known cr/lf pair.

\n will generate an extra  LF, but it's not necessary at the end of
a line, because it's implicitly there already.
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