chr(12) Form Feed in Notepad

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Sun Jan 17 01:38:50 EST 2010


On 2010-01-16, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:42:43 -0800, W. eWatson wrote:
>
>> I thought I'd put a page break, chr(12), character in a txt file I wrote 
>> to skip to the top of the page. It doesn't work. Comments?
>
> The 1970's are over, and neither Notepad nor your printer attempts to
> maintain compatibility with a Teletype model 37.

FF still works with a lot of things.  Most ASCII printers still
honor it, as do pagers and programs like a2ps.  I still use it
in ASCII text files...

-- 
Grant





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