On older Macs, every line has a CR at the end. The line feed is often referred to by the capital letters LF. What's the difference? The carriage return is often referred to by the capital letters CR. These new macs use a line feed instead of a carriage return to end a line. The newer Macintosh computers are called Mac OS X. Times have changed and Macintosh has too. Return marking the end of a line is intuitive to anyone who is oldįor those too young to know, an electric typewriter has a big key called aĬarriage return that automatically advances you to The original Macintosh used a carriage return to end a line.
This can really mess you up if you are trying to transferįiles from one operating system to another. Why? Becauseĭifferent operating systems use different markers to indicate the end Text files are often incompatible across operating systems.
