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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Write to a file in a specified order Post 302461895 by DGPickett on Tuesday 12th of October 2010 04:34:07 PM
Old 10-12-2010
@methyl . . . and for Apple, just a CR.

The CR comes before the linefeed because the carriage on the teletype needs a lot of time to move up to 8+ inches to the left, more compared to the time to raise the platen roller and paper 1/6 of an inch. Some of that time came from the stop and parity bits at the end of the serial, asynchronous data characters, but slow devices on fast lines needed null padding characters. Nobody seemed to have the right formulas to correctly pad for a form feed, not that you wanted to buy that much paper.

Luckily, only Notepad insists on CR; email, Wordpad and Word do not.

Man pages come with embeded backspace for underlining and bold, but who has a paper terminal any more? Sometimes, paper print programmers used the CR alone to overprint the line for bold, underline or strikeout.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paperconf

PAPERCONF(1)						      General Commands Manual						      PAPERCONF(1)

NAME

       paperconf - print paper configuration information

SYNOPSIS

       paperconf [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h ] [ -c | -m | -i ]

DESCRIPTION

       paperconf prints information about a given paper.  The information that can be obtained is the name of the paper, its size and its width or
       height.	When called without arguments, paperconf prints the name of the system- or user-specified paper, obtained by looking in  order	at
       the  PAPERSIZE  environment  variable,  at  the	contents  of  the file specified by the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents of
       /etc/papersize or by using letter as a fall-back value if none of the other alternatives are successful.  By default, width and	height	of
       the paper are printed in PostScript points.

OPTIONS

       -p paper
	      Specify the name of the paper about which information is asked.

       -d     Use the default builtin paper name.

       -a     Consider all known paper names.

       -z     If the paper name is unknown, print it but issue a message on the standard error and exit with a non-zero code.

       -n     Print the name of the paper.

       -N     Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.

       -s     Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.

       -w     Print the width of the paper.

       -h     Print the height of the paper.

       -c     Use centimetres as unit for paper size.

       -m     Use millimetres as unit for paper size.

       -i     Use inches as unit for paper size.

ENVIRONMENT

       PAPERSIZE	   Paper size to use regardless of what the papersize file contains.

       PAPERCONF	   Full path to a file containing the paper size to use.

FILES

       /etc/papersize	   Contains  the  name	of  the system-wide default paper size to be used if the PAPERSIZE and PAPERCONF variables are not
			   set.

AUTHOR

       Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       papersize(5)

								   24 April 2001						      PAPERCONF(1)
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