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Old 08-13-2019, 07:07 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
Back in the old days when all we had was ASCII both Ctl-R and Ctl-M were end-of-line characters; Ctl-R was a carriage return and Ctl-M was a newline. So given my historical perspective, mapping them to anything seems like asking for trouble.
I seem to remember that ctrl-J was a linefeed (EOL for Unixes) while ctrl-M was a carriage return. Ctrl-R was DC2 and I don't remember it being commonly used other than by one program that used it to turn the paper tape punch on a TTY-33 on.
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