Re: Mac vs unix Carriage returns on a text file format
Re: Mac vs unix Carriage returns on a text file format
- Subject: Re: Mac vs unix Carriage returns on a text file format
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:22:26 -0800
At 4:02 AM -0500 4/5/05, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:
>I'd guess you'd have had to do the same thing on a line-printer when batch processing, but I never tried for special effects with a card deck: Waiting from one AM to one thirty to find out that on your 10th batch you'd made a typo on card 290 of a 300-card deck actively discouraged underclassmen from wasting paper on something as useless as "pretty" formatting....
Discouraged *you* perhaps.
While I never did malicious things, like printing several rows of underlined underscores in an effort to chop off the page, I did some forays into computer graphics using the IBM 360's line printer. My Towers of Hanoi solution involved printing the disk positions using ASCII art. Apparently the teacher even heard about it through the grapevine before I turned it in.
Then in my assembler class, I read the chapter "Compiler Directives" and made my programs so pretty and readable that the professor made everyone study that chapter first. Of course, mine were still the most readable.
There were other fun things to do with line printer output, but most of them involved the 4 story atrium in Bond Hall and large stacks of output. Well, that and helicopters made from punch cards.
Jon
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