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\r\n has always seemed redundant, regardless of the standards.

I get using \r without \n for fun rewriting of a current line of text on a terminal.

But has anyone (in recent years) honestly want a new line, without a carriage return?

And why did all the internet protocols settle on this? It's an extra 8bits that are unnecessary.



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