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From: jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B.Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: \l means LINEFEED (Re: How do I tell curses/terminfo.. )
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.180425.28376@gorm.ruc.dk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 18:04:25 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.131741.23026@gorm.ruc.dk> <1991Jan25.151715.24535@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes:
>In article <1991Jan23.131741.23026@gorm.ruc.dk> I wrote

  [My question deleted]

>>d200-ansi|dasher-ansi|Data General DASHER 200 in limited ANSI mode,
>>	cr=\r, nel=\l,
>>	ind=\l,

>What does \l mean?  I can't find it in the terminfo man entry.

The man-page for terminfo has this:

	\n	maps to NEWLINE
	\l	maps to LINEFEED
	\r	maps to RETURN

But don's ask me for the difference between NEWLINE and LINEFEED.

>--
>			    Jeff Wieland
>			wieland@ecn.purdue.edu

Jan