From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-09-24T02:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: whitespace string only

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 09:44, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Markus wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 08:34, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> >
> >> since when is NUL whitespace!?  defintely against POLS.
> >
> > ?????
> >
> > Since when _isn't_ NUL whitespace?  

[abundant online rebuttal snipped]

      Gosh.  So I guess your answer to my question is "since the late
1970's or so", which, coincidentally, is most likely the last time I
checked.  Back in the RS-232 paper tape and teletype days (ASCII)
whitespace was the same as non-printing, e.g. everything <= 040 and
sometimes 0177, while the EBCDIC definition was a little murkier.

      *laugh*  I wonder if anything else has changed in the last thirty
years?

      Thanks,

          -- Markus