31 Dec
2007
31 Dec
'07
7:41 a.m.
At 02:45 AM 12/31/2007, ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
I think I did, too. The odd combinations could turn up once
the sender and receiver were on different platforms using
different telecom programs, each with their own settings
for send and capture, as well as the after-effects of
crude text-file filtering utilities that people used back
then to massage files they'd captured from elsewhere.
To better handle all combos in the software I was writing at the
time, I rewrote much of C's stdio so it was more agnostic and
flexible about line ending. We already had a wrapper around
it for platform independence and better error-handling, so it
wasn't a stretch.
CRLF, LFCR, I
never did see LFCR in the wild.
I think I did, once. Really confuesed a bit of software I was using too... I beleive the original intention was that 0x7F would be
_ignored_. The
point being you could overpunch any characeter on paper tape to turn it
into 0x7F (all holes), and thus you could effectively delete that
character from the tape
Wasn't it used to indicate that the previous character could
be ignored?
- John