The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
End Of Line
(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)