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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: ASCII and newline
Message-ID: <10556@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 88 17:56:16 GMT
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	"... but I *do* have ANSI X3.64-1979 handy, and in its
	description of LINE FEED NEW LINE MODE (for all the UNIX
	hackers in the audience, you can think of it as "am" :-)) ..."

No, "am" (automargin) means the terminal will pretend it saw
carriage-return line-feed when it moves past the rightmost column.  A
better comparison is "stty -nl" in BSD or "stty onlcr" in sysV.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!tekecs!frip!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com@relay.cs.net)  [ARPA]