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
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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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