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Re: Personal wishlist....

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From: Paul Carpenter
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00
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john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:
-On Monday, in article <830796776snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>
-     paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk "Paul Carpenter" wrote:
....
-PC> Finger/Viewer
-PC>         Expand TAB characters so when doing finger status@gate.d.c.u it is
-PC>         all readable!
-PC> 
-PC>         I know that they should not be there, but sometimes some people put
-PC>         entries in quickly so forget about not using tab character.
-
-This should IMHO be fixed at the host end.  Sounds like
-a little cron job.  Or else just make using an editor
-that inserts tabs a sacking offence!  (I had to get out
-of software management, the Personnel Dept couldn't cope
-with the work I generated!)

I would agree, but you can't tell when fingering other sites or viewing if
a remote document follows the rules of NO TAB characters ;)

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Paul Carpenter		| paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk
      Consulting for DSP, Image processing, System tuning & more..
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Date: 1996/04/30
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