@item @dots{}-mac
Assume the file uses carriage return to separate lines, and do the
appropriate conversion. (This was the convention used in Classic Mac
-OS.)
+OS, but is now rare outside of legacy software.)
@end table
These variant coding systems are omitted from the
@cindex EOL conversion
@cindex end-of-line conversion
@cindex line end conversion
- @dfn{End of line conversion} handles three different conventions
-used on various systems for representing end of line in files. The
-Unix convention, used on GNU and Unix systems, is to use the linefeed
-character (also called newline). The DOS convention, used on
+ @dfn{End of line conversion} handles three different conventions used
+on various systems for representing end of line in files. The Unix
+convention, used on GNU and Unix systems, and macOS, is to use the
+linefeed character (also called newline). The DOS convention, used on
MS-Windows and MS-DOS systems, is to use a carriage return and a
-linefeed at the end of a line. The Mac convention is to use just
-carriage return. (This was the convention used in Classic Mac OS.)
+linefeed. The Mac convention, used in Classic Mac OS and now rare
+outside of legacy software, is to use just carriage return.
@cindex base coding system
@cindex variant coding system