PCvsUNIX.TXT    File differences between PC and UNIX    1999/02/28

     The "line feed" character has the hexadecimal representation
0A and can be typed on the keyboard by "Ctrl-J".  The "carriage
return" character has the hexadecimal representation 0D and can
be typed on the keyboard by "Ctrl-M".

     The contents of ASCII files on a PC are separated into
records or lines by having a carriage return character
immediately followed by a line feed character to indicate the end
of a record.  The contents of ASCII files in UNIX are separated
into records by having a line feed character to indicate the end
of a record.  ASCII files have the attribute of being "formatted".

     The files on this CD-ROM are one of four possible types: PC
ASCII files, UNIX ASCII files, PC executable files, or
unformatted datafiles.  Datafiles are described in more detail in
the file DATAFILE.DOC which is located in the root directory of
the CD-ROM.  In the directories \UNIX and \CODE, all ASCII files
are UNIX ASCII files.  At all other locations on the CD-ROM,
ASCII files are PC ASCII files.

     Although all PC editors, should easily read in PC ASCII
files, not all may be able to read in correctly UNIX ASCII files.
The PC executable editor E, which resides in \CPIJ, can correctly
read in either kind of ASCII file.  E writes out only PC ASCII
files.  Most UNIX editors, for example vi, can read in either
kind of ASCII file, but the carriage return character will appear
at the end of each line if the file was a PC ASCII file.