http://www.rfc-editor.org/EOLstory.txtThe End-of-Line Story The ASCII standard for text does not define a unique end-of-line (EOL) character. Instead, ASCII defines two independent and orthogonal movements of the print head: Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF). (IBM's EBCDIC did not make this mistake; it defined a single New Line (NL) character.) Early operating system designers had to adopt some "end-of-line" convention using CR
