Re: [nmh-workers] Flagging messages

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Robert,

In message <address@hidden> you wrote:
>
> Yes, I'd forgotton that one.   Having lines which contain just spaces
> legal, and meaning something different than an empty line, played havoc
> on systems that did e-mail using fixed length space padded records.

IBM mainfraimes with RECFM=FB, LRECL=80 (the classic format
for punchcards)?  Don't forget the EBCDIC encoding fun :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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