line starve
(MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong wa Y b Y one line (most printers can' t do this). On a displa Y terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "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 back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the da Ys before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminolog Y. Even among hackers it is considered sill Y. 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 normall Y be emitted. [ Jargon File] (1995-02-03) Yle="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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