Dear Robert,
In message <5654.1558957716@jinx.noi.kre.to> you wrote:
Yes, I'd forgotton that one. Having lines which contain just spaces
legal, and meaning something different than an empty line, played havoc
on systems that did e-mail using fixed length space padded records.
IBM mainfraimes with RECFM=FB, LRECL=80 (the classic format
for punchcards)? Don't forget the EBCDIC encoding fun :-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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