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- Message-ID: <REXXLIST%92090118511438@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:01:06 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 Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:18:42 GMT from <ets@WRKGRP.COM>
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- On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:18:42 GMT Edward T Spire said:
- >: I later wrote a little
- >: UNIX REXX program (see below) to investigate this anomalous (to me)
- >: phenomenon. I was shocked to discover that this UNIX REXX
- >: interpreter considered 41 of the 256 possible 8-bit codes in the
- >: range '00'X to 'FF'X to be blanks! 41? Where did this come from?
- >
- >I ran your program on an RS/6000 and got 6 white space characters,
- >not 41. Then I ran it on a older Sun and got 48! On a newer Sun
- >I got 7, on an HP I got 10, and on SCO I got 44.
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- Now there is an operating system you can really sink your teeth into!
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