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

Thanks.  Yup, but I prefer the hex version!
J


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Subject: Re: [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
>
>
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> [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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