line starve
(MIT, oppo Site of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (mo St printer S can' t do thi S). On a di Splay terminal, to move the cur Sor up to the previou S line of the Screen. "To print "X Squared", you ju St output "X", line Starve, "2", line feed." (The line Starve cau Se S the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed get S back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character Sequence) that cau Se S a terminal to perform thi S action. A SCII 26, al So called SUB or control-Z, wa S one common line- Starve character in the day S before microcomputerS and the X3.64 terminal Standard. Unlike "line feed", "line Starve" i S *not* Standard ASCII terminology. Even among hacker S it i S con Sidered Silly. 3. (Propo Sed) A Sequence Such a S c (u Sed in SyStem V echo, a S well a S nroff and troff) that Suppre SSe S a newline or other character( S) that would normally be emitted. [ Jargon File] (1995-02-03) Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="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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