What is File Type "Netscape"?

Mats Johnsson · Post by **Mats Johnsson** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:50 pm

When I open a file in TextPad and look at the document Properties I see the following:

Code Set: ANSI
File Type: Netscape

Does anyone know what file type "Netscape" means? I think it has something to do with the end-of-line characters being used but in what way?

/Mats

troll-free · Post by **troll-free** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:27 pm

Does anyone know what file type "Netscape" means? I think it has something to do with the end-of-line characters being used but in what way?

Yes, it's represented by the sequence CRCRLF, or 0x0d0x0d0x0a. I have no idea why it's known as the Netscape file type -- possibly because it was introduced by them. I've never seen such a file until my Perforce client somehow pulled down a source file with this style of line endings.