From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: New_Page
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:19:31 +0100
Date: 2006-11-01T13:17:09+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <zH%1h.42912$XE5.888@reader1.news.jippii.net>
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:39 +0200, Tapio Marjomäki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could somebody tell why the procedure below does not run as expected?
>
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> -- with Ada.Characters.Latin_1; use Ada.Characters.Latin_1;
> procedure Page is
$ ./page |cat -v
0
New page
^LNew page
^LNew page
^L
I believe the ^L is called a format effector, to be interpreted
by the printer or terminal.
-- Georg
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2006-11-01 12:19 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-11-01 18:29 ` New_Page Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-01 19:35 ` New_Page Robert A Duff
2006-11-02 2:14 ` New_Page Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-02 19:20 ` New_Page Tapio Marjom�ki
2006-11-02 19:53 ` New_Page Pascal Obry
2006-11-02 20:57 ` New_Page Keith Thompson
2006-11-03 1:17 ` New_Page Robert A Duff
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