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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Distinguished pointers (really: newline)
Message-ID: <8492@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 12:09:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 12:09:03 1987
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> I never even thought about looking at the Ascii standard. Where do you get
> it?

Its full name is "ANSI X3.4-1977, American National Standard Code for
Information Interchange".  ANSI is at 1430 Broadway, NYC 10018; be warned
that their prices are high.

In case anyone's interested, the relevant item is in section 5.2, in the
description of LF:

	"Where appropriate, this character may have the meaning "New Line"
	(NL), a format effector that advances the active position to the
	first character position on the next line.  Use of the NL convention
	requires agreement between sender and recipient of data."

There is no analogous clause under the description of CR.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry