bartc wrote: > > "Nobody" <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:pan.2010.01.16.04.24.18.437...@nowhere.com... >> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:42:43 -0800, W. eWatson wrote: >> >>> I thought I'd put a page break, chr(12), character in a txt file I wrote >>> to skip to the top of the page. It doesn't work. Comments? >> >> The 1970's are over, and neither Notepad nor your printer attempts to >> maintain compatibility with a Teletype model 37. > > Odd that TXT files under Windows still use the same 13 (carriage > return), 10 (linefeed) and 9 (tab) codes that used to work on my ASR 33. > So why not code 12 (formfeed)? > Because the KSR/ASR33 devices were designed for continuous output in things like torn-tape and torn-paper messaging systems (where I believe Cable and Wireless made a lot of money once upon a time). There was no point paginating the copy, and to do so would have been wasteful. An operator would just hit CRLF a few times (in fact a good operator would only return the carriage once at the start, and then just hit the requisite number of line feeds.
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