RE: Carriage Return

I believe this is platform-dependent. Windows wants both a carriage-return and line-feed character to move down a line and to the left edge. Macintosh will accept the carriage-return only. I don't know about the various flavors of Unix/Linux shells.

The basic idea is that a line feed advances the paper one line through the printer while the carriage return moves the print head to the left-most column (think of an old Underwood or Royal typewriter that reporters were always shown using in movies before the 1960's).
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Mohammed Ashfaq S <Mohammed.S@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:47:13 +0530
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:   Carriage Return

Hi All,
If new line ('\n') is  '
'
what is Carriage Return ('\r')----??

Thanks in Advance
Ashfaq