Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!snorkelwacker!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!looking!funny-request From: lee@sqarc.sq.com Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Those useful ASCII characters... Keywords: computer, smirk Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 10:30:03 GMT Lines: 30 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca In a laser-printer manual I was reading today I found a table entitled `Meaningful control codes' The first entry is NUL (0) Null. Used for filling in time during transmission or space on media. Others include BBS (08) Back space. Causes impact-type printer [sic] to move the print element one space to the left. In [this printer], BS has this effect only if it is the first code in the print line. DEL (7F) Delete. Indicates that subsequent data is to be ignored. Neat printer. Now I know what I should be using to fill all that unused space on the disk... Lee [I have omitted the name of the manufacturer out of compassion...] -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Jokes posted instead of mailed often don't have a valid reply address.