Subj : Re: Binkd errors
To   : mark lewis
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Mon Nov 06 2017 20:25:55

-=> mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 ml> 25 Mar 16 02:30, you wrote to me:

 ml>>   Node 10:10/1@league10   time.synchro.net  -

 ml>> the number of spaces does not matter but they do need to be there...
 ml>> this one has no password and uses the default Flo...

 BM> That's strange... the spaces were there went I sent it.  Actually the
 BM> - for the password section had 5 spaces after .net.

 ml> ahhhh... i'll bet they were not spaces... i'll bet they were tabs... i
 ml> know that the binkd_nodelister.pl script uses tabs ("\t") in the
 ml> OUTSTUFF line...

Well that was probably it.  


 BM> Must have been a C&P issue..

 ml> i suspect so... actually a combination where the copy copied the tabs
 ml> instead of the number of spaces and the paste pasted the tabs instead
 ml> of the spaces and whatever you pasted into looks like it converted the
 ml> tabs to dots to indicate an unprintable character like we see in some
 ml> hex viewers and editors...

Understood... :)

 ml> FWIW: i can't stand tab characters... i generally try to set all of my
 ml> editors to replace tabs with spaces and then only two spaces instead of
 ml> four or five... tab characters are ok to a point but when you start
 ml> sharing a document with others tab characters become a real PITA really
 ml> really fast...

I never gave them much thought actually... I know it's a PITA when you're
trying to format columns in a text document.. ;)


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