ASCII and newline

Andrew Klossner andrew at frip.gwd.tek.com
Thu Nov 3 03:56:16 AEST 1988


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	"... but I *do* have ANSI X3.64-1979 handy, and in its
	description of LINE FEED NEW LINE MODE (for all the UNIX
	hackers in the audience, you can think of it as "am" :-)) ..."

No, "am" (automargin) means the terminal will pretend it saw
carriage-return line-feed when it moves past the rightmost column.  A
better comparison is "stty -nl" in BSD or "stty onlcr" in sysV.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!tekecs!frip!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com at relay.cs.net)  [ARPA]



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