Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 8:22:03 MET DST From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: lehey.pad@sni.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laser Printers Message-ID: <199604030506.HAA12749@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <9604021602.AA04623@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 2, 96 11:02 am
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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. I stand (partially) corrected. It obviously wasn't UNIX. However, assigning two different meanings to the same character must have come as the the result of a de facto usage rather than a planned change to the function. Was it Multics, perhaps? Greg
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