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- From: anders@lise3.lise.unit.no (Anders Christensen)
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Dave Gomberg's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:39:48 PDT
- Message-ID: <ANDERS.92Aug28005053@lise3.lise.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: /home/flipper/anders/.organization
- References: <REXXLIST%92082711412564@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 00:50:53
- Lines: 22
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- In article <REXXLIST%92082711412564@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET> writes:
-
- > Sender: REXX Programming discussion list <REXXLIST@UGA.BITNET>
- > From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- >
- > Anders, I really think you want to consider a bit more before you write.
- > Your last posting was so full of things which are wrong, and other things
- > with which I disagreed that it was too much work for me to bother to
- > reply.
-
- If you bother to state in public that I am wrong, then I think you should
- bother to indicate where I am wrong.
-
- > I think if you tended to focus your thoughts a bit more on the
- > real issues, and less on U**x, you might attract a wider audience. [...]
-
- At least to me, the Tab/Space problem *is* very real. The original
- posting in this tread was a suggestion from Scott Ophof that the ANSI
- standard should only have one space character. This, IMHO might have
- serious negative effects on ASCII machines. *That* was my concern.
-
- -anders
-