From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:45:38 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ALI Files Cross-References Inconsistency? Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:45:38 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <1ab5413e-ac60-4fb7-b3bd-930de3f0fe0do@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-iX8I2MRbiXenJL9uzLy/BxkHRfEaGMwzWGRxWlWGlqWmeiIlUB8TuMbm3mxhxi4xDPTM2Jikk4GSpcq!WIxknmDhcr0FVJfFZF6ujAb5mjtPwMUst5gi8sEa+lCfMxcq7qnAQVQYjU16kp8a/iEdL7cs X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1938 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59721 List-Id: On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:18:09 +0100, Simon Wright declaimed the following: >Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > >> Much software "counts" a 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 -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/