Re: [MLUG] ASCII abbreviations

["Mark A. Haidekker" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Friday 05 April 2002 01:40 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jonathan King wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > "man ascii" produces this (among other things):
> > >
> > >        0 NUL   1 SOH    2 STX    3 ETX    4 EOT    5 ENQ    6 ACK    7
> > > BEL 8 BS    9 HT    10 NL    11 VT    12 NP    13 CR    14 SO    15 SI
> > > 16 DLE  17 DC1   18 DC2   19 DC3   20 DC4   21 NAK   22 SYN   23 ETB
> >
> > [snip]
[snip]

> Related to this, does anyone know what all those character names above
> stand for?  Are they related to control characters?
>
> Mike
>

I'll try (apparently I am old enough to having been confronted with that), 
but don't take this as gospel:

NUL = null character (yes, really)
SOH = start  of header (?)
STX = start of text
ETX = end of text
ACK = Acknowledge (still used in serial comm protocols)
BEL = bell (old TTY machines rang a physical bell, the one with a solenoid)
BS = backspace
HT = horizontal tab
VT = vertical tab
CR = carriage return
SO = shift out
SI = shift in
DLE = delete
DCx = device control x
NAK = negative acknowledge
SYN = synchronization
ETB = end of text block (?)

You might get this off the Internet more quickly, I guess... 

Mark
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