Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ASCII
Message-ID: <1988Oct28.185145.26872@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <24355@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1991@stpstn.UUCP> <381@infmx.UUCP> <24566@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <3989@rlvd.UUCP> <1988Oct24.201751.19602@utzoo.uucp> <359@mccc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 88 18:51:45 GMT

In article <359@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>...ASCII is a single, well-defined, well-specified character set...
>
>Except, of course, for LINE FEED/NEWLINE.

Actually, if one is being picky, there are a number of permissible
variations in how control characters are handled.  (Which doesn't affect
the original discussion about printing characters.)  The LF/NL business
is one of those variations.  Yes, newline is permitted by the standard,
assuming both ends agree.
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