The reason for EBCDIC codepoints 15 and 25 is to be compatible with the IBM Selectric Typewriter. One of them would roll the paper forward a line with out moving the type ball. The other would put the type ball at the beginning of the next line. Also their is another codepoint 0A that moved the type ball to the beginning of the current line so you could over type what had been typed. This was an important security measure. After the user typed a password you should do a 0A followed by a string of E7 (X) to make the printed password unreadable.
Fargusson.Alan wrote:
In EBCDIC codepage 1047 there is a newline at codepoint 15 and a linefeed at codepoint 25. This leads to some confusion in various conversion tables.
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