On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jourge Fuzz Bush wrote:
>What does the \r do?
carriage return, what the typewriters do when you hit the lever on the
end.
>In my previous programming I just used \n for carage returns. I think it
>has something to do with streaming sockets ( I think I read that ) but
>I'm not sure. Can anyone help?
\n is a newline, to go down one line. Carriage return is different.
Sometimes \n = down and return though.
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