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Windows uses a character sequence to indicate the of a line, which is usually a carriage return - line feed sequence. This is two characters for the end of every line. You might see a sequence of x'0D0A' characters to end a line in Windows.

UNIX uses the concept of a 'newline', which is a single character (usually a X'0A' character) to indicate the end of a line.

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