At 07:49 PM 10/1/2001 -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:40:51PM -0700, Bob Frankstein wrote:
> Where did \n \r \t come from?

Newline, (carriage) return, tab.

Ah.


> 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.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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