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line feed

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(1) A character code that advances the screen cursor or printer to the next line. The line feed is used as an end-of-line code in Unix. In DOS and OS/2 text files, the return/line feed pair (ASCII 13 10) is the standard end of line code.

(2) A printer button that advances paper one line when depressed.

(character)line feed - (LF, control-J, ASCII 10) The ASCII character meaning move the cursor down to the same column on the next line. Originally this would have been done by "feeding" paper through the printer.

Unix uses line feed as its text line terminator (newline character).
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