Re: Keyboard Question?
Re: Keyboard Question?
- Subject: Re: Keyboard Question?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:01:07 -0800
At 18:48 -0800 1/17/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 1/17/01 2:57 PM, "Goodman, Steve" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Danny Goodman's book has 31 listed as a unit seperator
And that's what it is, in ASCII. It comes from punched paper tape, and
separates, well, units. GS separates groups, RS separates records. [Those
are just before US, in some order <I used to know>.] And a line is one row
of holes across the tape. Or, of course, one row of characters across the
paper which results from feeding the paper tape through a reader. Those a
separated by CR LF NUL NUL NUL (the LF and the NULs give the carrier time
to return physically, which is why CR comes before LF...the LF time is
"free" that way). NUL is hex or decimal or octal 0.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA