Exactly

>
> As for an example, if I want to look at a file and see if it
> should have <lf> removed, it's harder to do if the tools disguise
> the line terminators. As a matter of fact, many of the junk characters
> that you are seeing in Squeak crept in precisely because of people
> using automatic line conversion, and not noticing that the real
> contents of some file was incorrectly formatted. So I guess that
> you could count that as a problem. But really, it's just a matter
> of preference, so try using CrLfFileStream if you prefer that  
> approach.