And at full CR/LF has been standard practice on mechanical printers (teleprinters) from the beginning, to give the carriage time to return to the left position. Otherwise, you can wind up with the first character of the new line being printed in the middle of the line, as it tried to print with the carriage in flight to the starting position.
Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] US Postal Address: PSC 45 Box 781 APO AE 09468 USA UK Postal Address: Dawn Cottage Norwood, Harrogate HG3 1SD, UK Telephones: Office: +44-(0)1423-846-385 Home: +44-(0)1943-880-963 Guam Cell: +1-671-788-5654 UK Cell: +44-(0)7716-298-224 US Cell: +1-240-425-7335 Jamaica: +1-876-352-7504 This e-mail and any documents attached hereto contain confidential or privileged information. The information is intended to be for use only by the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this e-mail or any documents attached hereto is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lux, James P Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:10 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather's Leap Log On 12/31/08 6:06 PM, "Steve Rooke" <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/1/1 Mark Sims <[email protected]>: >> >> Note that there is an error in the first column heading in Lady Heather's >> Leap Log. It says UTC... should be GPS. The three line hour timestamp >> comment is correct (UTC). The distributed version of the program logged only >> time-of-week. I added the HH:MM:SS yesterday but messed up the column header >> (boy is Lady Heather gonna be mad when She finds out). The random spacing is >> due to Billy Gates Quality Control... he still can't figure out where to put >> CRs and LFs in an email... > > Well, POSIX decided on LF, Mac on CR and Billy Boy decided to hedge > his bets with both LF and CR. It's little wonder I always get a lot of > double spacing here then :-) > Hardly microsoft's fault. Blame the teletype. Or perhaps DEC. RT-11 stored CR/LF in files, and CP/M adopted that convention, followed by DOS, etc. I imagine RT-11 did CR/LF because A) it allows use of unmodified KSR/ASR 33 TTYs without having to worry if the user has the autoLF option B) with ink on paper, the ability to do overprints (CR w/o LF) is actually useful. Them newfangled CRT based terminals can't do this (except for the Tek 401x series) Jim _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
