[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Leap Log

[Neon John]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:06:02 +1300, "Steve Rooke" <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:

>2009/1/1 Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com>:
>>
>> Note that there is an error in the first column heading in Lady Heather's Leap Log.  It says UTC...  should be GPS.  The three line hour timestamp comment is correct (UTC).  The distributed version of the program logged only time-of-week.  I added the HH:MM:SS yesterday but messed up the column header (boy is Lady Heather gonna be mad when She finds out).  The random spacing is due to Billy Gates Quality Control...  he still can't figure out where to put CRs and LFs in an email...
>
>Well, POSIX decided on LF, Mac on CR and Billy Boy decided to hedge
>his bets with both LF and CR. It's little wonder I always get a lot of
>double spacing here then :-)

But billy boy never did anything original.  He copied CP/M, Intel ISIS and
other early OSs.  I argue that THEY got it right, separating a carriage return
from a line feed.  In the good old days, there were lots of times when one
would want to advance a line feed without moving the carriage or vice versa.

I know the *nix argument that the line terminator ought to be a single
character and can't argue too loudly since I CAN put the port in raw mode.
Still, that requires programming, as opposed to just creating or editing files
and cat'ing them to the printer port.

John
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