ASCII
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sat Oct 29 04:51:45 AEST 1988
In article <359 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>...ASCII is a single, well-defined, well-specified character set...
>
>Except, of course, for LINE FEED/NEWLINE.
Actually, if one is being picky, there are a number of permissible
variations in how control characters are handled. (Which doesn't affect
the original discussion about printing characters.) The LF/NL business
is one of those variations. Yes, newline is permitted by the standard,
assuming both ends agree.
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