Some ignorant questions about text handling

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:34:46 UTC, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@pergamos.net> wrote:

> Dave Saville wrote: 
>
> Putting the linefeed before the carriage return?  You complete
> Bolshevik, you.

Which of course is *exactly* what the carriage return lever did on a
typewriter :-) The drum steps before the CR is completed, or even
starts, depending on the force required for the various parts of the
mechanisim.
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Dave Saville

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