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Chapter 12: Web and Print Publishing

Line-termination conventionsTable 12-1.

Line termination Encoding OSes

Line feed

c

1 ( or ) Unix and Mac OS X

d

Also expressed as CR.a.

Also expressed as CR + LF or CR + NL (b. New Line).

Also expressed as LF or NL.c.

Some aspects of Mac OS X, such as working in the d. Terminal application, prefer this line-termination convention.

A nonbinary le transfer session will convert the line-termination characters appropri-

ately. For example, if you are using Windows and connect to a Linux or Unix server to

transfer a le from Linux or Unix to Windows, a nonbinary FTP connection will change

line termination appropriately, from LF to CR+LF. For those who use Unix, or for Mac

OS X using the Ter mina l application, the following tr command changes line termination,

from carriage returns (CR) to line feeds (LF):

tr '\015' '\012'

And, when transferring les that were authored on Windows to Unix or Linux, the fol-

lowing tr command performs a similar function by simply removing the carriage returns

(CR):

tr -d '\015'

Files that contain real binary data must be transferred in binary transfer mode; other-

wise, their data will most certainly become corrupt. Compressed les are the most com-

monly encountered binary les. Binary data, for example, may contain byte values that

correspond to carriage-return or line-feed characters, but they are not to ...