RS>   I can't make any guarantees that a newline is always
 RS>   ASCII 10 on all systems, but I think that's standard C.

 KK> We can't be sure what tab, carriage return, line feed, or
 KK> alarm will be on any system. They are defined individually
 KK> by each compiler according to its environment.
 KK> We only see the '\t', '\r', '\n', and '\a' standard values.
 KK> What the compiler sees is not relevant until we want to
 KK> handle the data produced by the use of these characters,
 KK> such as when manually interpreting a text file produced by
 KK> use of these characters.

   If a system uses ASCII (and all modern personal computers do), then 
   we can be sure the low 128 characters will be standardized.  My 
   question was more about whether a newline (C terminology) was 
   necessarily a linefeed (ASCII terminology).  I believe this is the 
   case, but I'm not 100% certain.
   
... "Isn't that cute?  It's breaking its teeth!"  -Ajax
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