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Ah the good old days, when hackers were hackers and quiches were quiches. Oh wait, this article is 'man ascii' & 'man kermit'.

falsedan 10y ago
Although interestingly enough from 'man ascii', it's clear why ^C is ETX: > Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char > ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── > 000 0 00 NUL '\0' 100 64 40 @ > 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A > 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B > 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C > 004 4 04 EOT (end of transmission) 104 68 44 D > 005 5 05 ENQ (enquiry) 105 69 45 E Holding Ctrl set bit 6 to '0', bit 7 to '1', and bit 8 to '0'. 'C' and 'c' differ by bit 6 only ('1' for 'c').
- jccc 10y ago
  I remember CLU said, "Acknowledge" but I can't remember if the MCP said, "End of transmission" or "End transmission." From now on every time I Ctrl-d I want to think the voice of the Master Control Program.
  - nostoc 10y ago
    I'm pretty sure the MCP says "end of line", not "End of transmission". It's been a while though, maybe he says both.
    - jccc 10y ago
      Ah, right. I thought there was at least one place where he said, "End transmission," but I'm probably wrong.
      - prodigal_erik 10y ago
        Then there's "End Of User" which makes their terminal explode. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EOU.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EOU.html
  - thevibesman 10y ago
    The MCP said "END OF LINE"
- kalleboo 10y ago
  It was just a month or two ago I saw an ASCII table layed out in a way so that it clicked that "oh, so THAT'S why backspace is ^H" and the other control chars you end up using like ^D, ^C, ^G, ^[ suddenly made sense after that
majewsky 10y ago
I think you mean "quiche eaters". :)
- falsedan 10y ago
  I uh was too hungry to type it like that (it's lunchtime)
GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> quiches were quiches Kind of interesting how remnants of culture wars of 35+ years ago linger today, and from the perspective of 2017 how anybody could have gotten annoyed at people who eat egg-and-cheese pies.
JdeBP 10y ago
kbdmap(5) had a fictional character in its ASCII control character list for 17 years. ascii(7) used non-ASCII names for quite a while, too. * https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205776 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205776 * https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205778 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205778

falsedan 10y ago

Although interestingly enough from 'man ascii', it's clear why ^C is ETX: > Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char > ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── > 000 0 00 NUL '\0' 100 64 40 @ > 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A > 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B > 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C > 004 4 04 EOT (end of transmission) 104 68 44 D > 005 5 05 ENQ (enquiry) 105 69 45 E Holding Ctrl set bit 6 to '0', bit 7 to '1', and bit 8 to '0'. 'C' and 'c' differ by bit 6 only ('1' for 'c').

jccc 10y ago
I remember CLU said, "Acknowledge" but I can't remember if the MCP said, "End of transmission" or "End transmission." From now on every time I Ctrl-d I want to think the voice of the Master Control Program.
- nostoc 10y ago
  I'm pretty sure the MCP says "end of line", not "End of transmission". It's been a while though, maybe he says both.
  - jccc 10y ago
    Ah, right. I thought there was at least one place where he said, "End transmission," but I'm probably wrong.
    - prodigal_erik 10y ago
      Then there's "End Of User" which makes their terminal explode. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EOU.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EOU.html
- thevibesman 10y ago
  The MCP said "END OF LINE"
kalleboo 10y ago
It was just a month or two ago I saw an ASCII table layed out in a way so that it clicked that "oh, so THAT'S why backspace is ^H" and the other control chars you end up using like ^D, ^C, ^G, ^[ suddenly made sense after that

majewsky 10y ago

I think you mean "quiche eaters". :)

falsedan 10y ago
I uh was too hungry to type it like that (it's lunchtime)

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

> quiches were quiches Kind of interesting how remnants of culture wars of 35+ years ago linger today, and from the perspective of 2017 how anybody could have gotten annoyed at people who eat egg-and-cheese pies.

JdeBP 10y ago

kbdmap(5) had a fictional character in its ASCII control character list for 17 years. ascii(7) used non-ASCII names for quite a while, too. * https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205776 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205776 * https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205778 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205778