meaning of line starve
1. line starve MIT, opposite of line feed 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line most printers cant do this. On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed. " The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line. 2. A character or character sequence that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3. 64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. Proposed A sequence such as c used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff that suppresses a newline or other characters that would normally be emitted. [Jargon File]
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