ech (09/08/82)
#R:sri-unix:-312300:whuxlb:900005:000:252 whuxlb!ech Sep 7 23:23:00 1982 Actually, the USASCII standard specifies that ^J is the newline character; UNIX has simply conformed with that standard since the earliest days, with "map cr to nl on input, map either to cr-nl on output" provided as a user convenience. =Ned Horvath=