RE: Carriage Return

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 cknell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.

Under Unix/Linux, the default for pressing "Enter" key is to get a ^M
(Control-M).

If you send a CTRL-M to console it will move to beginning of line and will
not go to the next line.

For example: abcd^Mefgh will only display "efgh" (since "abcd" is
overwritten).

CTRL-J (the linefeed) will go to the next line and also put cursor at
beginning of line also under Unix.


 Jeremy C. Reed

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