From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:45:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcqdjf1ersbhmnkdko305j5k4vhc1o1d4u@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lyblje6y9a.fsf@pushface.org
On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:18:09 +0100, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
declaimed the following:
>Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
>> Much software "counts" a <TAB> as moving to the next multiple of 8
>> (which was the hardware spacing on things like VT-100 terminals
>
>The VT-100 had soft tab stops, didn't it? I don't remember whether the
>ASR-33 had tab stops at all, but they _would_ have been hardware.
Well... the "reset" mode was multiple of 8. But yes, I think one could
manually change the stop positions -- which didn't help in how software
interpreted them <G>
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-13 15:24 ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency? Leandro Ribeiro
2020-08-13 15:55 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-08-13 21:18 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-14 19:45 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2020-08-13 17:17 ` Egil H H
2020-08-14 8:11 ` Leandro Ribeiro
2020-08-14 16:35 ` Per Sandberg
2020-08-14 17:23 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-15 7:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2020-08-14 19:47 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-09-25 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-25 19:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-25 22:33 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-26 8:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-09-30 9:53 ` wj46633
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