Date: 11 Jun 1998 21:41:00 +0200
From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
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Subject: Re: Control-L
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Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no (Harald Tveit Alvestrand)  wrote on 11.06.98 in <3.0.2.32.19980611151120.00bba9e0@dokka.maxware.no>:

> In US-ASCII, which uses ISO Control Character no. 1 as a subset, the
> Control-L character (12) is defined to be a FF:
>
> "A format effector which advances the active position to the same character
> position on a pre-determined line of the next form or page".
>
> Reference: ISO Character Set Registry, http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/

And also highly irrelevant to the topic at hand, IMNSHO.

> I don't think DRUMS should say anything to explain the meaning of this.

It's not DRUMS' charter to explain the ISO-IR. It is DRUMS' charter to  
explain the message format, which - especially where control codes are  
involved - has only tenuous links to the former.

MfG Kai