ASCII

[Henry Spencer]

In article <359 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>...ASCII is a single, well-defined, well-specified character set...
>
>Except, of course, for LINE FEED/NEWLINE.

Actually, if one is being picky, there are a number of permissible
variations in how control characters are handled.  (Which doesn't affect
the original discussion about printing characters.)  The LF/NL business
is one of those variations.  Yes, newline is permitted by the standard,
assuming both ends agree.
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