Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why shouldn't ^J (linefeed) be used as a command in an application?
Keywords: line discipline, control characters, UNIX conventions
Message-ID: <739@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 88 06:00:22 GMT
References: <4404@sfsup.UUCP> <713@auspex.UUCP> <1591@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Lines: 15


 >Zebu, our records management product uses ^M to get to the next field
 >and ^J to get to a secondary record.  We have been using it this way
 >at SSC since 1983 and have been selling it for almost as long with no
 >problems/complaints.  Did I miss something as to why this could be a
 >problem?

Well, you appear to have missed the last sentence of my statement:

>> The main problem is if you have a terminal that can't send them both...

I think there really are such terminals.

However, most terminals don't have this problem, which is probably why
you haven't had any complaints.  With any luck, you never will.