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echo: public_domain
to: Alexander Watson Law
from: andrew clarke
date: 1996-03-20 01:47:04
subject: file encoding via fidonet type 2 ma

20 Mar 96 01:41, andrew clarke wrote to Alexander Watson Law: 

 >>> ASCII: 008 : Hex: 0x08 : ""
 >>> ASCII: 009 : Hex: 0x09 : "	"

 >> Looks as though Msged is stripping the 0x09 (Tab) character and 
 >> replacing it with a string of spaces.

Actually Msged is only expanding tabs when displaying them on the screen;
it exports 0x09 regardless.

Regards
Andrew, who's not paying his normal attention to the world because it's
2:50 Wednesday morning.  :-)

--- Msgedsq/2 3.30
* Origin: This one HAS to be original X (3:635/727.4{at}fidonet)
SEEN-BY: 50/99 78/0 635/309 503 544 727 640/230 711/401 410 413 430 808 809
SEEN-BY: 711/934 712/610 713/888 800/1 7877/2809
@PATH: 635/727 544 50/99 711/808 809 934

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