[Haskell-cafe] runInteractiveProcess and hGetLine on Windows

[Ketil Malde]

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> writes:

> According to the ASCII standard, it was fully legitimate to use
> backspace and carriage return to get over-striking (which is why ASCII
> includes oddities such as ^ and ` : they really are for accents, and ,
> did double duty as cedilla, ' as acute accent, =\b/ really was
> not-equals (as was /\b=), &c).  According the the ISO 8859 standard,
> that's not kosher any more.  So there are (on Windows and Unix) no
> known uses for isolated \r characters.

Say what?

I use \r when generating output to a terminal when I want to update
the current line of output instead of writing a new line.  E.g. for
tracking progress in my programs.

(As a line terminator followed by \n, it would have no effect though.)

-k
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