Re: New_Page

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:
>
>> In short, New_Page is device-specific, should probably not have been
>> included in Text_IO, and should be avoided in portable SW.
>
> New_Line isn't exactly portable, either.  ;-)

New_Line produces an end-of-line marker.  The way this is represented
varies from one system to another, but this is a *very* well-known
issue, and translating from one format to another is extremely common.

New_Page produces an end-of-page marker.  Most systems don't even have
such a thing.

I agree that all the page-oriented stuff should have been left out of
the language.

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