"Steve Holden" <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote in message
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bartc wrote:
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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.
My point was these other control codes from over 30 years ago are still in
use today, so why not also make use of chr(12)?
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