AW: [FWP] japh

["Pense, Joachim" <joachim.pense@eds.com>]

Hi!

Ian wrote:

>As a a sometime user of an ASR33 (aka "teletype") there's a very good
>reason for the CR/LF pair. The CR was sent first, and started the print
>head moving. Then the LF, which advanced the platen. The CR motion took
>longer, so needed a "dead" character after it. Unless you wanted to
>overprint, CR-LF did fine. Otherwise you sent CR-NUL.

I somehow do not get the point. I understand CR moves the point to the left,
LF one line down. I see no dead character there...

Joachim

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