end of line

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

End Of Line

   <character> (EOL) Synonym for {newline}, derived perhaps from
   the original {CDC 6600} {Pascal}.  The abbreviation "EOL" is
   now rare, but widely recognised and occasionally used for
   brevity.  Used in the example entry under {BNF}.

   Out of context this would probably be (deliberately) ambiguous
   because different systems used different (combinations of)
   characters to mark the end of a line.  {Unix} uses a {line
   feed}; DOS uses {carriage return}, line feed ({CRLF}) and the
   {Macintosh} uses carriage return.

   See also {EOF}.

   (2002-03-22)