chr(12) Form Feed in Notepad

bartc bartc at freeuk.com
Sat Jan 16 17:23:31 EST 2010


"Nobody" <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote in message 
news:pan.2010.01.16.04.24.18.437000 at nowhere.com...
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:42:43 -0800, W. eWatson wrote:
>
>> I thought I'd put a page break, chr(12), character in a txt file I wrote
>> to skip to the top of the page. It doesn't work. Comments?
>
> The 1970's are over, and neither Notepad nor your printer attempts to
> maintain compatibility with a Teletype model 37.

Odd that TXT files under Windows still use the same 13 (carriage return), 10 
(linefeed) and 9 (tab) codes that used to work on my ASR 33. So why not code 
12 (formfeed)?

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Bartc 




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