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- From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
- Subject: Re: Something is stripping blanks....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.183421.22777@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
- Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
- References: <1992Dec24.082048.1098@dmc.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:34:21 GMT
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- Yes, MX trims trailing blanks. It does this for two reasons.
-
- 1. You have to trim blanks on messages coming in from BITNET.
- The typical message format there is fixed-length 80-byte records.
-
- 2. It saves space on disk.
-
- The BITNET problem should probably be handled by doing the blank-trimming in
- the MX-Jnet interface ONLY. And saving disk space is probably not as
- important as retaining message integrity. It typically isn't harmful,
- though.
-
- You should not expect trailing blanks to be retained on any message you
- send, however, in case it has to pass through a network and/or system
- that does blank-trimming.
-
- -Matt
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- Matthew Madison | madison@tgv.com | +1 408 427 4366
- TGV, Inc. | 603 Mission Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA
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