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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>newline</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="newgroup-wars.html" title="newgroup wars"/><link rel="next" href="NeWS.html" title="NeWS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">newline</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newgroup-wars.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NeWS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="newline"/><dt xmlns="" id="newline"><b>newline</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/n[y]oo´li:n/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character (0001010),
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used under <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a> as a text line terminator. Though
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the term <span class="firstterm">newline</span> appears in ASCII
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standards, it never caught on in the general computing world before Unix.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, any magic character, character sequence, or
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operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) required to terminate a text
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record or separate lines. See <a href="../C/crlf.html"><i class="glossterm">crlf</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newgroup-wars.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="NeWS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newgroup wars </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> NeWS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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