On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:40:51PM -0700, Bob Frankstein wrote: > Where did \n \r \t come from?
Newline, (carriage) return, tab. > I would expect them to be \j \m \i, after ^J, ^M, ^I. ^J, ^M, and ^I are just the key sequences which happen to correspond to those characters' ASCII values. \n, \r, and \t are actually mnemonic. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]