Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:02:50 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laser Printers Message-ID: <9604021602.AA04623@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604020930.LAA14474@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> References: <1522.828074144@palmer.demon.co.uk> <199604020930.LAA14474@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
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<<On Tue, 2 Apr 96 8:29:24 MET DST, Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> 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
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