On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:09:40 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>Thereby sacrificing some small economy of storage. There are even >>better arguments for deferring the disambiguation, such as: > >>o Use of tabs as field separators in exported data bases. > >>o Rendering in proportional-spaced fonts, particularly when the >> choice of font ls left to the viewer. > >o Use of HT to represent HT for applications that treat HT as an > HT, e.g., EDIT, SCRIPT. > A considerable refutation of the argument against retaining tabs in files.
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:51:33 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>[Notepad] Doesn't understand UNIX line breaks. > >I don't FTP text files as binary. NOTEPAD doesn't introduce fancy >formatting that I didn't request and don't want. For me, that makes it >supperior to WORDPAD. > Rather than FTPing hither and yon, I share many of my files with NFS and Samba among UNIX, z/OS, and Windows. This argues for an eclectic editor. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
