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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:52:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:36:50 -0700, John Ames wrote:
> It's always struck me as funny that nobody *ever* seems to use the ASCII
> control characters that already exist for record demarcation for that
> purpose ...
Pick did, I believe.
> ... aside from CR/LF/tab/NUL, and BEL/SUB/ESC in interactive-
> terminal contexts, the whole 0x00-0x1F range might as well not exist.
Terminal systems do make use of other characters for various purposes,
e.g. CTRL/C for interrupt, CTRL/O to discard output etc.
I tried to get a discussion going on this subject in
alt.folklore.computers a few months ago
.
> Not that it'd be a conspicuously *good* idea, but I've always harbored
> an impish desire to devise a format that makes use of the rest in some
> way that maps relatively logically to the original intent/description...
You really have to wonder that that original intent was in some cases,
though ...