Re: Single User

On 5/19/22 10:20 AM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:51 AM Valeri Galtsev 
> <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu <mailto:galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 5/19/22 9:25 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > On Mon, 16 May 2022 01:44:57 +1000
>      > Andy Farkas <andyf@andyit.com.au <mailto:andyf@andyit.com.au>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
>      >>
>      >> I haven't seen a RETURN key on a keyboard for many many decades..
>      >>
>      >> -andyf
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      > ENTER and RETURN are two different keys.
>      >
>      > Are no mainframe guys here who still know this?
>      >
> 
>     I am old enough to remember this. Do we remember CR/LF as in "carriage
>     return" and "line feed"?
> 
>     ;-)
> 
>     Valeri
> 
>      > Erich
> 
> 
> Man .. I'm old!
> 
> I even know where these terms came from. They're typewriter terms .
> 
> When you reached the end of the line on the paper being typed, you had 
> to crank a lever to roll the paper one line up (LINE FEED)
> and use the lever to return (push) the carriage to the first position of 
> the new line (CARRIAGE RETURN).

Me too, it is hard to forget the origing of such things somehow.

Valeri
> 
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