On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:06:02 +1300, "Steve Rooke" <sar10...@gmail.com> wrote:
>2009/1/1 Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com>: >> >> Note that there is an error in the first column heading in Lady Heather's >> Leap Log. It says UTC... should be GPS. The three line hour timestamp >> comment is correct (UTC). The distributed version of the program logged >> only time-of-week. I added the HH:MM:SS yesterday but messed up the column >> header (boy is Lady Heather gonna be mad when She finds out). The random >> spacing is due to Billy Gates Quality Control... he still can't figure out >> where to put CRs and LFs in an email... > >Well, POSIX decided on LF, Mac on CR and Billy Boy decided to hedge >his bets with both LF and CR. It's little wonder I always get a lot of >double spacing here then :-) But billy boy never did anything original. He copied CP/M, Intel ISIS and other early OSs. I argue that THEY got it right, separating a carriage return from a line feed. In the good old days, there were lots of times when one would want to advance a line feed without moving the carriage or vice versa. I know the *nix argument that the line terminator ought to be a single character and can't argue too loudly since I CAN put the port in raw mode. Still, that requires programming, as opposed to just creating or editing files and cat'ing them to the printer port. John -- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! Tellico Plains, Occupied TN Risk: $20 hooker, year old condom. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
