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| Frank Kotler to muta...@gmail.com |
| Re: BEL |
| 05 Dec 21 15:59:55 |
From: fbkotler@myfairpoint.net On 12/05/2021 01:23 AM, muta...@gmail.com wrote: ... > If YOU were designing ASCII back in 1960 or whenever, and > a teletype existed that had a coffee machine, would YOU have > reserved a control character (or sequence, like the ANSI > escapes) to switch it on? Quite possibly, yeah. I don't have a coffee machine attached. They did have a bell... Best, Frank --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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