Am 1999-07-01 um 13:00 h hat Otto Stolz geschrieben:
> In MS-DOS (or PC-DOS and other DOS variants) on the PC, it is not
> well defined, at all: [...]
> - '09'x (HT) means either a tabulator [...] or a line-break,
I am no more sure about the HT used as a line-break in plain text.
It is indeed used in an internal Word-format (Word 2.0 for DOS, and
perhaps in later versions) for this purpose, but I haven't kept an
old Word implementation, so I cannot check Word's input conversion
from plain text to this format.
Current Word for Windows input conversions from plain text
interpret some C0 characters thus (checked with Word 97):
'09'x (TAB) tabulator
'0A'x (LF) paragraph break
'0B'x (VT) line break
'0C'x (FF) page break
'0D'x (CR) ignored
'0E'x (SO) [sic!] column break
Still, my main point holds: In MS-DOS, plain text is not well defined,
as there are wide variations in the usage and meaning of several controll
characters.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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