-=> 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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