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Quite a lot still does: How terminals and their emulators set and process tabstops; conversion between CRLF and LF in Unix line disciplines; the idea of millisecond pauses in character sequences in terminfo/termcap; overstriking in the output of troff; scrolling the paper back to see what you typed earlier; …


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