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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
1.4.1 saved the modified files with UNIX EOLs (CR only), while 1.5.9 saved them with DOS EOLs (CRLF). One of the short story sections displayed a phantom text-comparison difference that looked like an extra linefeed, but bringing both modified copies into Notepad++ and changing the 1.5.9 version to use UNIX EOLs made them byte-identical. The same behavior showed up in the longer book as well, and I don't see a pattern. Some chapters display several instances, while others show none at all.
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Minor nit. The UNIX EOL is a LF not a CR. Apple used CR for an EOL up to Mac OS X where they switched to using a LF.