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Re: Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB?
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB? |
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Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:58:51 +0200 |
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() Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
() Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:15:32 -0400
Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> not sure if the two line feeds I discovered in etc/DISTRIB
> are on purpose or not.
They are there to separate the text into "pages" (header, body,
footer). Other files in etc/ use them similarly.
btw, the ^L (ascii 12, 0xC) is called "form feed". in teletype
dayz, a "form" was a "page"; printing a ^L caused a page break.
actual line feed char is ^J (ascii 10, 0xA).
more info by evaluating form: (man "ascii")
thi