REQUEST FOR COMMENTS ON PROPOSED ADDENDUM TO THE USA STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE, X3.4-1967

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• Publication Date: July 1, 1968
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Request for Comments on Proposed Addendum
to the USA Standard Code for Information
Interchange, X3* 4- 1967
mo it Nation Bureau of Standards dtd
23 May 68, same subject
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1. One of the principal reasons subject Addendum is up for cen-
t this time is the common practice of providing the New
';e of operation on newly developed equipment instead of
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Information Processing Staff/OPPB
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
faster, simpler to operate, and eliminates possible operator error,
e. g., Cif without LT. The use of CR for returning on the same line
for und+rlining, mass application of diacritical marks, etc. is a mar-
giual requirement. It should be noted that the most widely used elec-
trical keyboard print6v device is the standard electric typewriter and
this device (which operates in what could be described as NL mode) has
been applied satisfactorily to a wide range of applications.
tunications terminal operates in an NL mode.
Z. From our vantage point, NL is preferable to CR-LF. NL is
to say the least, in communications systems. These systems generally
have substantial amounts of installed equipment which operate in the
CR-L17' mode. However, standards set the course for the future and,
in the long run, NI.. seems destined to replace CR-Li. The CR-Li
mode is more an accommodation to early equipment technology than to
user preference or current equipment technology. For example, most
teletype equipment operates in a CR-LF mode, but the IBM 2741 coxn-
;invent. Any standard which does not prride CRS-LF will be agonizing,
,peration which has been traditional 'with older, teletype-tike equip-
or in addition to the Carriage Return (CR) and Line Fsed (LF) mode of
3. In view of the above, I believe that the proposed Addendum to
the USA Standard Code for Information Interchange, X3.4-1967 should
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be supported as an Adder to the 'U'SA Standard and included in the
ASCII federal Standards; des, NL or CR-LF can be applied where
each can be used most addaatageously, accepting the penalty of com-
patibility adjustments where necessary.
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CHARLES A. BRIGGS
Information Processing Coordinator
Science and Technology
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