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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] carriage returns in 9term and acme
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:15:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a804e5865b0ed4b5032260a5ba8915b@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSxfmJXgQyFXvy7B7P=0KscWNx3jb7S6-G5wa+uX3r2xjfnyw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed Sep 12 20:13:38 EDT 2012, skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com wrote:
> without a LF how will the sprockets pulling the screen up vt(1) get activated?
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Indeed. Though I'm waiting for the trivial implementation that does
> > something imaginative with the batshit practice of overwriting lines
> > using CR without LF.

now that you mention it, vt is missing the flyback transformer whine.  you
should be able to *hear* what's displayed.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12  3:57 Christopher Hobbs
2012-09-12  4:06 ` cinap_lenrek
2012-09-12  4:48   ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-12 14:30     ` Matthew Veety
2012-09-12 23:39       ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-13  0:02       ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-13  0:07         ` Bruce Ellis
2012-09-13  0:12           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-09-13  0:15             ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-09-13  0:22               ` Bruce Ellis
     [not found]               ` <CAJQxxw=BPuX4kBr3_t2g7Pn9zMU3bw24W4T3jbr4=BMJ=bEm5g@mail.gmail.c>
2012-09-13  0:32                 ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-13 10:13               ` Steve Simon
2012-09-13 13:49                 ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-12  4:08 ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-17 12:44 ` michaelian ennis

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