Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 23:53:21 -0600 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CR LF was: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <5FE406BC-7295-4A33-BF3C-B81AD4705E6C@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <f3172f9f-24f5-f776-a466-960555956aea@missouri.edu> References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <00225a04-237d-9051-9aea-12c192106a20@anatoli.ws> <373EDB20-C750-42E2-A41B-EA61F6E49807@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200609120136.00005b3c@seibercom.net> <2393a1e0-b073-950a-78be-9f57d8e9934b@anatoli.ws> <e1f6623a-3b3c-a43e-446a-d41f20f69418@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200610063555.00003707@seibercom.net> <82F57D0D-E0EC-49F7-824E-20A296C9F549@kicp.uchicago.edu> <250b853a-b436-0e99-b05c-9abd6b6019ef@panix.com> <20200611070630.2cb42786.freebsd@edvax.de> <EA869B95-9D98-4ECC-9371-C57A0035BC32@kreme.com> <20200611075658.1dd841a9.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200611082443.0000187a@seibercom.net> <2e6c6baf-9d87-2a02-00c3-578c6630f97f@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200611172537.2f7cdc07@archlinux> <b1d78ca6-f5f8-02d0-25c6-b53d21771fd6@panix.com> <20200612081401.f5a5c95b.freebsd@edvax.de> <4fff9eab-fa74-afe9-b046-9b0bcdb072ce@panix.com> <CAEJNuHw32nUd8c=OJTB1SpDXUTxJfLERHoUKDyWby0nTqQcc-A@mail.gmail.com> <f3172f9f-24f5-f776-a466-960555956aea@missouri.edu>
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On 12 Jun 2020, at 13:32, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen = <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote: > It always seemed to me to be a waste of bits. Why not have one ASCII > code that did both? Then I found out why. >=20 > One time, I decided to try a LF CR at the end of a line instead of CR > LF. I found that the next character that was typed ended up in the > middle of the page, not on the far left as it should have been. What = I > realized was that the CR takes time to complete, because it has to > physically move the printer head to the left margin. The extra LF = gave > the printer the extra time it needed. Not sure about teletypes, butt here were other reasons to have separate = codes for line feeds and carriage return: strikeout and underline. This word is underlined<CR> ,,,,,,,,,,,,,__________=20 Where each , is a space. Same for strikethrough, m using a dash instead. --=20 We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.
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