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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Distinguished pointers (was Re: Weird syscall returns)
Message-ID: <548@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 14:22:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.548
Posted: Sun Aug 23 14:22:12 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 00:55:20 EDT
References: <1158@copper.TEK.COM> <6858@auspyr.UUCP> <17171@cca.CCA.COM> <8444@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Wow. L:earn something new every day.

In article <8444@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Tsk, tsk.  How many of the people pontificating about ASCII have actually
> read the ASCII standard?  Down in the fine print, it says loud and clear
> that IF a single character is used for the new line function, it shall be
> the one otherwise known as linefeed, and "newline" is then a legitimate
> name for it.  I don't vouch for the wording -- my copy of the standard
> isn't handy -- but the meaning is clear.  OS/9 is simply wrong here.

The man from the Zoo comes through again.

Wow. Amazing. I never knew that.

I never even thought about looking at the Ascii standard. Where do you get
it?
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-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)