Re: Assembling Complex Strings Containing Carriage Returns Prior to Using Ada.Text_IO.Put?

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:59:29 +0100, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
declaimed the following:

>Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
>
>> CR & LF come to us from the Good Old Days of teletypes. CR returned
>> the mechanism so the next character would print in the 1st column; LF
>> advanced the paper a line. The 2 were separate so that a CR by itself
>> could be used to overprint a line.
>
>And you needed to do it in that order, because CR could take much longer
>than LF; do it in the wrong order and the first character of the next
>line would be a flying smudge in the middle of the line as the printing
>head glanced off the paper.

	Practice when I first learned BASIC (on an ASR-33 time-share dial-up
system) was to use the sequence <cr><lf><rubout> to add additional
buffering time (especially when reading from the paper tape).
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