The lost art (Was: The VAX is running

[Fred Cisin]

> > I fired one who was unable to write a program to print 3-up mailing labels
> > because the printer didn't have a reverse line-feed!

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Alexandre Souza wrote:
>     REVERSE LINE FEED? Never heard of that. What is a 3-up mailing label?
> That perforated roll of three mailing labels per line? I can do that in
> BASIC with just one of the hands.

Yep.
He was able to print one column of labels, with a \n at the end of each
line, and then was stuck because he couldn't make the printer go back up
to the top of the page again!


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com