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From: ricker@bunker.UUCP (ricker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: RMS form feed
Message-ID: <1436@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 11:45:59 EST
Article-I.D.: bunker.1436
Posted: Thu Jan 22 11:45:59 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Jan-87 07:05:29 EST
References: <2144@brl-adm.ARPA> <5497@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1901@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: ricker@bunker.UUCP (ricker)
Organization: Bunker Ramo/Olivetti, Trumbull CT
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In article <1901@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> Whatever that means ...
>It doesn't have to mean anything!  What do FS, GS, RS, and US mean?
>-- 
>Col. G. L. Sicherman
>UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
>CS: colonel@buffalo-cs

Those are ANSI/ISO-defined control sequences. ISO 646 reads as follows:

FS - File Separator - delimits a data item called a file.
GS - Group Separator - delimits a data item called a group.
RS - Record Separator - delimits a data item called a record.
US - Unit Separator - delimits a data item called a unit.

"A control character used to separate and qualify data logically;
its specific meaning has to be defined for each application. If [the]
character is used in hierarchical order as specified in the general
definition of IS, it delimits a data item called a {file,group,record,unit}."

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