Maybe a bug

[Ch. A. Herrmann]

Hi,

    Francisco> When I use, for instance, the string "something\n\n" the
    Francisco> result is "something\n\n" and doesn't make a
    Francisco> newline. With \t is the same problem.

the effect of the control characters depends on the context of use.

If they are used with "putStr", it works (with February2000 hugs),
example:

Main> putStr "First\tLine\nNext\t\tLine"
First   Line
Next            Line
Main>

Good luck
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