The
:external-format
argument of
open
and related functions should be an ef-spec, where the name can be
:default
. The symbol
:default
is the default value.
In this section, an ef-spec is "complete" if and only if the name is not
:default
and the parameters include
:eol-style
.
All external formats have an
:eol-style
parameter and if it is not explicit in an ef-spec a default is used. The allowed values are
This is the default on Unix/Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X systems, meaning that lines are terminated by Linefeed.
This is the default on Windows, meaning that lines are terminated by Carriage-Return followed by Linefeed.
Lines are terminated by Carriage-Return.