On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:45:42 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>Not naive at all; it allowed overprinting. That's true even when the target 
>device doesn't implement those functions; the device driver deals with it.
>
"The good thing about standards is ..."

There's also Machine Carriage Control and "ANSI" carriage control
and CMS utilities to convert between them.  And backspace to
overstrike.   What does UNICODE say about  overstrike?

<https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/927:_Standards>

(BTW, what's the UNIX utility or option which undoes backspaces
appearing in "typescript"?
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=descriptions-script-makes-typescript-terminal-session>
)
-- 
gil

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