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newline

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  newline  /n[y]oo'li:n/  n.  1.  [techspeak,  primarily  Unix]  The 
  ASCII  LF  character  (0001010),  used  under  {{Unix}}  as  a  text  line 
  terminator.  Though  the  term  `newline'  appears  in  ASCII  standards, 
  it  never  caught  on  in  the  general  computing  world  before  Unix.  2. 
  More  generally,  any  magic  character,  character  sequence,  or  operation 
  (like  Pascal's  writeln  procedure)  required  to  terminate  a  text  record 
  or  separate  lines.  See  {crlf},  {terpri}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  newline 
 
    /n[y]oo'li:n/  {Line  feed}  or  other 
  character  sequence  used  to  terminate  a  line  of  text. 
 
  {Unix}  uses  {line  feed}  as  its  text  line  terminator  -  a 
  {Bell-Labs}-ism  rather  than  a  {Berkeley}ism.  Interestingly 
  (and  unusually  for  Unix  jargon),  it  is  said  to  have  originally 
  been  an  {IBM}  usage.  Though  the  term  newline"  appears  in 
  {ASCII}  {standards},  it  never  caught  on  in  the  general 
  computing  world  before  {Unix}.  The  encoding  of  line  feed  as 
  "\n"  in  {C}  and  {Unix}  strings  comes  from  this  name 
 
  The  term  has  been  used  more  generally  for  any  {end  of  line} 
  character,  character  sequence  (e.g.  {crlf}),  or  operation 
  (like  {Pascal}'s  writeln  procedure  or  {Lisp  1.5}'s  {terpri}) 
  required  to  terminate  a  text  record  or  separate  lines. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
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