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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Escape Sequences in Strings
Date: 2000/11/16
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"Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> writes:
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> NL     \n     Ada.Characters.Latin_1.NL

There is no Ada.Characters.Latin_1.NL.  The C '\n' character is most
commonly LF (linefeed).  In general, it's whatever acts as a newline
character on the current system.  On some systems, the I/O subsystem
has to map '\n' to a CR LF sequence on output, and do the reverse
mapping on input.

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