From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 08:03:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA04891 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA04885 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA04623; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:02:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:02:50 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9604021602.AA04623@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laser Printers In-Reply-To: <199604020930.LAA14474@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> References: <1522.828074144@palmer.demon.co.uk> <199604020930.LAA14474@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > To be fair to HP, this applies to all printers I know. The original > definitions of CR and LF are: > Carriage return: return the carriage (print head) to the left margin. > Line feed: rotate the platen one line forward without moving the > carriage. > UNIX abused LF to mean both functions, which saves space, but is still > not correct. BZZZZT! Wrong, but thanks for playing. The alternative use of code 10 as NL (`newline') rather than LF (`linefeed') was in ANSI X3.64-1968, and is still there today. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant