Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB?

Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB?

[Christian Faulhammer]

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Hi,

not sure if the two line feeds I discovered in etc/DISTRIB are on
purpose or not.

V-Li

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--- /usr/share/emacs/22.1.50/etc/DISTRIB	2007-08-25 14:01:11.000000000 +0200
+++ etc/DISTRIB	2007-08-26 22:42:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 						-*- text -*-
 For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from
 the USA, see http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
-\f
+
 	   GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000
 
 Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995,
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
 			Richard M Stallman
 			Chief GNUisance,
 			President of the Free Software Foundation
-\f
+
 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

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Re: Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB?

[Glenn Morris]

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.

Re: Spurious line feed in etc/DISTRIB?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() 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