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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Subject: Re: Linux as terminal emulator.
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Date: 7 Mar 01 17:02:43 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <3AA6BD0B.AE2D3E98@adelaide.edu.au>, Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@adelaide.edu.au> writes:
> Hi Frank, I'm a little puzzled as to why the carriage return character
> is said to be ASCII 15 in both formats of the paper. Isn't the carriage
> return ASCII 13 (unless one is using octal representation)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Arthur.
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In olden tymes big iron spoke in six bit units, and we employed
Octal to represent the material. None of this late-comer hex stuff. So
015 (in C-speak) has decimal value 13.
Joe D.