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- Message-ID: <REXXLIST%92082611343436@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:31:32 PDT
- Sender: REXX Programming discussion list <REXXLIST@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 26 Aug 1992 08:56:20 GMT from <anders@LISE3.LISE.UNIT.NO>
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- The notion of using tabs to represent multiple blanks dates back to the
- IBM2741. Now if there is a truely obselete device on this planet, that
- is it. But U**X continues to try to perpetrate the notion that this is
- a good idea.
-
- Please don't be confused by the issue of disk file compression. Certainly
- nobody wants to fill a disk with long strings of blanks, and on the disk,
- compression (with tabs or whatever scheme) is useful. But to have codes
- other that '20'x in running text when a blank is meant, to me is obselete,
- and worse yet, confusing and stupid. There is no NEED for lots of different
- blank characters. That C recognized them shows the difference between C
- and REXX.
-