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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:37:05 PDT
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- From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 27 Aug 1992 23:37:20 EDT from <ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA>
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- Eric's problem generates no "can of worms" in one case, the case where
- blanks are spaces, and nothing else is. Then value is terminated by
- one or more spaces followed by a colon, or the end of line. Simple,
- and right. The so-called problem comes from a design flaw in an
- underlying system that synonymizes characters that are not at all the
- same because the implementers did not understand history.
-
- If it is required that 20 characters be syonymized because the designers
- of a character set did not understand the distinction between a character
- set and a printer control languague, I for one don't want to buy a device
- that fools around with that character set.
-