Re: Renaming working on ixampl

Well - my first programming was on 5-hole(?) teletype, so I was very familiar with the CR then LF !

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> On 23 Aug 2023, at 06:09, Norm Tovey-Walsh <norm@saxonica.com> wrote:
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>> This was done originally (pre-Windows, e.g. DOS) so that the teletype
>> could advance the paper while the print head was moving back to the
>> left margin after getting the CR.
> 
> Ah. Cool. I’d have guessed it was just whatever order the engineer
> implementing it picked on the day.
> 
>                                        Be seeing you,
>                                          norm
> 
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> Norm Tovey-Walsh
> Saxonica

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