From: Xavier Noria Date: 2007-11-21T06:44:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Why does IO.readlines() keep newlines? On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney wrote: > Unfortunately, files created on one platform inevitably make their way > to another. When an IO with \r\n is read on a UNIX, it preserves the > carriage return. Yes, that's covered in the article I mentioned as well: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding-newlines.html?page=3 -- fxn