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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB?
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:58:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wdpxhf8.fsf@gnuvola.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n0absda1nv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon\, 27 Aug 2007 03\:15\:32 -0400")

() Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
() 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

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-27 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-26 20:44 Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB? Christian Faulhammer
2007-08-27  7:15 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-27 12:58   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]

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