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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 23:05

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On 24 Mar 2018 10:25:59 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-03-23, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

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>> While multi-printing did look good and set off headings and totals,
>> I never saw in use.  Many computer centers I was at discouraged 
>> multi-line strikes on the impact printer.
>
>I wrote a program which cut off its printer output by repeatedly
>overstriking a row of "*"s. It made such a racket I only ever ran
>it once, fearing for the mechanical integrity of the printer.
>
>(It was "my" computer room, so I could do what I liked in there.)

     Why asterisks?  Wouldn't "-" or "_" have worked better?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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