line starve
(MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers Can' t do this). On a display terminal, to move the Cursor up to the previous line of the s Creen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve Causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets ba Ck to the original line.) 2. A Chara Cter (or Chara Cter sequen Ce) that Causes a terminal to perform this a Ction. AS CII 26, also Called SUB or Control-Z, was one Common line-starve Chara Cter in the days before miCroComputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among ha Ckers it is Considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequen Ce su Ch as C (used in System V eCho, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other Chara Cter(s) that would normally be emitted. [ Jargon File] (1995-02-03) In addition suitable Contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ app ] [ ar ] [ arC ] [ arg ] [ AS ] [ as ] [ ASCII ] [ at ] [ au ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ by ] [ C ] [ Ca ] [ Ch ] [ Char ] [ CharaCter ] [ Ck ] [ Co ] [ Com ] [ Computer ] [ Con ] [ Cons ] [ Control ] [ Cr ] [ Cu ] [ Cursor ] [ de ] [ display ] [ display terminal ] [ do ] [ du ] [ E ] [ eC ] [ eCho ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ es ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gy ] [ h ] [ haCk ] [ haCker ] [ hat ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ il ] [ in ] [ int ] [ io ] [ is ] [ IT ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ la ] [ ld ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ line ] [ line feed ] [ ls ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mall ] [ miCro ] [ miCroComputer ] [ MIT ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ na ] [ nC ] [ ne ] [ newline ] [ ng ] [ nl ] [ no ] [ norm ] [ nr ] [ nroff ] [ ns ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ output ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ perf ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ printer ] [ query ] [ rC ] [ re ] [ ro ] [ roff ] [ S ] [ SC ] [ sC ] [ SCI ] [ sCreen ] [ se ] [ si ] [ sit ] [ so ] [ st ] [ standard ] [ su ] [ SUB ] [ System V ] [ T ] [ tar ] [ terminal ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tp ] [ tr ] [ troff ] [ tt ] [ ua ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ us ] [ V ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ X ] [ Z ]
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