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Subject: Re: The majordomo log file... (1.94.4) two items
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 20 Jan 1998 13:14:39 -0600
To: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Dave Wolfe's message of Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:17:56 -0600 (CST)
References: <199801201417.IAA22770@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>

>>>>> "DW" == Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> writes:

DW> IMO, tabs, while they lend some advantage to wetware readability, are
DW> inferior to "whitespace" between fields which allows pretty printing
DW> without destroying the basic format or parsability.

Tabs have the benefit that I can guarantee that they will not appear in any
of the fields.  Thus there are no quoting considerations.

I'm just going to leave it as-is, and if someone later wants to make it
more functional then, well, they can do so.

 - J<


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