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From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with Tur
Summary: please RTFM
Message-ID: <847@micropen>
Date: 7 Sep 89 15:56:38 GMT
References: <14517@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <140700008@cdp> <1657@bucket.UUCP>
Organization: Micropen Direct Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY
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In article <1657@bucket.UUCP>, leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> jeff@cdp.UUCP writes:
> 
> 
> <> for it to be sent to a terminal. For Unix, text files must be translated
> <> so a lf sends out both a line feed and a carriagereturn - and this
> <> means it is impossible to send out a linefeed alone.
> 
> <"Don't be ridiculous."  Of course it's possible to send out a linefeed
> <alone.  You need to issue the proper ioctl() to turn off CR/LF mapping.
> 
> And how, pray tell, do you do this *inside a text file*?
> 
> Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard

OK leonard.

From any UNIX terminal, type:

stty -onlcr

Then any UNIX terminal will consider it necessary to have both a new line
and a carriage return to do the "right" thing.  Few things in UNIX are
*musts* or *can'ts*.  You can make it do what you want.  Have fun.


-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll