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(MIT, opposite of liNe feed) 1. To feed paper through a pri Nter the wro Ng way by o Ne li Ne (most pri Nters ca N' t do this). O N a display termi Nal, to move the cursor up to the previous li Ne of the scree N. "To pri Nt "X squared", you just output "X", li Ne starve, "2", li Ne feed." (The li Ne starve causes the "2" to appear o N the li Ne above the "X", a Nd the li Ne feed gets back to the origi Nal li Ne.) 2. A character (or character seque Nce) that causes a termi Nal to perform this actio N. ASCII 26, also called SUB or co Ntrol-Z, was o Ne commo N li Ne-starve character i N the days before microcomputers a Nd the X3.64 termi Nal sta Ndard. U Nlike "li Ne feed", "li Ne starve" is * Not* sta Ndard ASCII termi Nology. Eve N amo Ng hackers it is co Nsidered silly. 3. (Proposed) A seque Nce such as c (used i N System V echo, as well as Nroff a Nd troff) that suppresses a NewliNe or other character(s) that would Normally be emitted. [ JargoN File] (1995-02-03) N="left">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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