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  2. Escape sequence - Wikipedia

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    In C and many derivative programming languages, a string escape sequence is a series of two or more characters, starting with a backslash \. [3]Note that in C a backslash immediately followed by a newline does not constitute an escape sequence, but splices physical source lines into logical ones in the second translation phase, whereas string escape sequences are converted in the fifth ...

  3. Control character - Wikipedia

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    The 1901 Murray code added the carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF), and other versions of the Baudot code included other control characters. The bell character (BEL), which rang a bell to alert operators, was also an early teletype control character. Some control characters have also been called "format effectors".

  4. Carriage return - Wikipedia

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    Touchmaster Five with carriage return lever at left. Originally, the term "carriage return" referred to a mechanism or lever on a typewriter.For machines where the type element was fixed and the paper held in a moving carriage, this lever was on the left attached to the moving carriage, and operated after typing a line of text to cause the carriage to return to the far right so the type ...

  5. Tab-separated values - Wikipedia

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    Tab-separated values (TSV) is a simple, text-based file format for storing tabular data. [3] Records are separated by newlines , and values within a record are separated by tab characters . The TSV format is thus a delimiter-separated values format, similar to comma-separated values .

  6. File URI scheme - Wikipedia

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    A valid file URI must therefore begin with either file:/path (no hostname), file:///path (empty hostname), or file://hostname/path. file://path (i.e. two slashes, without a hostname) is never correct, but is often used. Further slashes in path separate directory names in a hierarchical system of directories and subdirectories. In this usage ...

  7. IBM Machine Code Printer Control Characters - Wikipedia

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    This tape is called a carriage control tape and is mounted on the printer. The looped carriage tape moves synchronously with the stream of fanfold paper. The line printers have 12 sensors to recognize 12 independent positions on the carriage control tape. Each position is called a channel, numbered from 1 to 12. If a hole is punched in a ...

  8. Newline - Wikipedia

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    A newline inserted between the words "Hello" and "world" A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc.

  9. Filename extension - Wikipedia

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    The FAT file system for DOS and Windows stores file names as an 8-character name and a three-character extension. The period character is not stored. The High Performance File System (HPFS), used in Microsoft and IBM's OS/2 stores the file name as a single string, with the "." character as just another character in the file name.