[AccessD] More on vbCr, vbLf, VbNewLine, and vbCrLf

Happy Birthday John. 64 in Decimal years then?

GK

On 12/12/06, DJK(John) Robinson <djkr at msn.com> wrote:
> Nostalgia time (nothing directly to do with VB, just that I'm 40 today, and
> some of you youngsters need educating) ...
>
> Once upon a time, mechanical typewriters had a roller mounted on a carriage.
> The carriage moved the roller horizontally along its axis, taking the paper
> past the fixed character-at-a-time print position.  When the line of type
> was complete, the carriage had to be returned to its start position and the
> roller rotated sightly, feeding the paper up one line's depth.  Telex
> machines, teleprinters and suchlike called these functions Carriage Return
> and Line Feed, even after the carriage stayed still and the print head moved
> instead.  On some devices you could use CR on its own to overprint the
> previous line.
>
> Some of these electromechanical devices had rules to be obeyed, such as CR
> before LF, because CR took longer physically.  (One I recall needed
> CR-LF-CR, because the explosive force of the return after a long line made
> the darn thing bounce off its stops.)
>
> That's why the compound character is always CRLF (not LFCR) though I prefer
> NL or NewLine.  But how these different codes are handled by more recent
> languages and devices is another story, which is why this ramble has wasted
> your time - sorry!  But thanks for the excuse, Susan.
>
> Oh, and that '40' is in hexadecimal of course.  ;-)
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
> Sent: 12 December 2006 17:46
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: [AccessD] More on vbCr, vbLf, VbNewLine, and vbCrLf
>
>
> I'm finding that the vbCr, vbLf, vbNewLine and vbCrLf constants all do the
> same thing within message box text -- they all begin text at the left margin
> on the next line. I'm printing the evaluated statement to the Immediate
> window and find the same thing there -- they all push the text to the left
> margin of the next line. I can't see a difference between them.
>
> Susan H.
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