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 previo US line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you j USt output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve ca USes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that ca USes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as c ( USed in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(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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