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In article <1901 at sunybcs.UUCP> colonel at sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> Whatever that means ...
>It doesn't have to mean anything!  What do FS, GS, RS, and US mean?
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>Col. G. L. Sicherman
>UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
>CS: colonel at buffalo-cs

Those are ANSI/ISO-defined control sequences. ISO 646 reads as follows:

FS - File Separator - delimits a data item called a file.
GS - Group Separator - delimits a data item called a group.
RS - Record Separator - delimits a data item called a record.
US - Unit Separator - delimits a data item called a unit.

"A control character used to separate and qualify data logically;
its specific meaning has to be defined for each application. If [the]
character is used in hierarchical order as specified in the general
definition of IS, it delimits a data item called a {file,group,record,unit}."

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