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 te rminal, 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 te rminal to perfo rm 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 te rminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII te rminology. 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 no rmally 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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