line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the
wrong way by one line (most printers can't 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. n. A
character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform
this action. ASCII 0011010, also called SUB or control-Z, was one
common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and
the X3.64 terminal standard. Today, the term might be used for the
ISO reverse line feed character 0x8D. Unlike `line feed', `line
starve' is _not_ standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers
it is considered a bit 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 character(s) that would normally be
emitted.
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