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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sejnet.sunet.se!eric
- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Something is stripping blanks....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.102312.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
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- Sender: news@sunic.sunet.se
- Reply-To: ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE
- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1992Dec24.082048.1098@dmc.com> <1992Dec29.183421.22777@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 10:23:12 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec29.183421.22777@news.arc.nasa.gov>, madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison) writes:
- > Yes, MX trims trailing blanks. It does this for two reasons.
- >
- > 1. You have to trim blanks on messages coming in from BITNET.
- > The typical message format there is fixed-length 80-byte records.
- >
- > 2. It saves space on disk.
- >
- > The BITNET problem should probably be handled by doing the blank-trimming in
- > the MX-Jnet interface ONLY.
-
- And only if the message came in in PUNCH format. Within a few months most of
- BITNET (in terms of amount of generated messages, rather than amount of
- machines) should be running NETDATA-capable mailers, and there you don't want
- to strip spaces. I realize that the JNET interface probably isn't told what
- format the file came in, but if the blank line separating the header from the
- body is exactly 80 bytes long you can be fairly sure the message was sent in
- PUNCH format.
-
- Eric
-