From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:44:57 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Assembling Complex Strings Containing Carriage Returns Prior to Using Ada.Text_IO.Put? Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:45:01 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <79gg4ahc1jeu6k9cl0ubl3ot5fjbq6sbjg@4ax.com> References: <7c1b89e6-9ab8-4faa-b60c-c5c4683f0bff@googlegroups.com> <87d29kfwip.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4xQ1w.331852$Ub6.99057@fx20.iad> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.178.233 X-Trace: sv3-Y84uLpSkfg4MPV41Q4oXRwpFaIn9Am7mQjiumhX8h0YYy5q3DP+MOHtj6e2VhStoxXVJVFv/12lAsTy!nk7dlAQ0rgfLBcZBqB8XOF+uSaTIFGAEMJxqq1x2KsXO6f6H9yPQbM58l+72mm+99d4PsRcCdLBR!W/Z3CLTY7gvehyypEvJbKvu4pZXU X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2343 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22681 Date: 2014-10-22T19:45:01-04:00 List-Id: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:59:29 +0100, Simon Wright declaimed the following: >Jeffrey Carter 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 to add additional buffering time (especially when reading from the paper tape). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/