Dear Robert, In message <[email protected]> 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] "More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." - Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_ -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
