Comment by Parodper 16 days ago Yes, if you're talking to a terminal. But an in-disk file doesn't have a carriage to return. 2 comments Parodper Reply ryandrake 15 days ago Modern computer text output devices don’t have a “carriage” or a “feed” mechanism. I’d argue both CR and LF are legacy, anachronistic characters whose purpose was too device specific to make sense as a text encoding. kps 15 days ago Sure, there's a text encoding part and an equipment control part that puts the CII in ASCII.
ryandrake 15 days ago Modern computer text output devices don’t have a “carriage” or a “feed” mechanism. I’d argue both CR and LF are legacy, anachronistic characters whose purpose was too device specific to make sense as a text encoding. kps 15 days ago Sure, there's a text encoding part and an equipment control part that puts the CII in ASCII.
kps 15 days ago Sure, there's a text encoding part and an equipment control part that puts the CII in ASCII.
Modern computer text output devices don’t have a “carriage” or a “feed” mechanism. I’d argue both CR and LF are legacy, anachronistic characters whose purpose was too device specific to make sense as a text encoding.
Sure, there's a text encoding part and an equipment control part that puts the CII in ASCII.