From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: "\\n"
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.556
Posted: Sun Sep 12 20:10:39 1982
Received: Mon Sep 13 01:59:48 1982
References: ecn-pa.405

The newline character on TENEX was 'US' (\037).
=Spencer