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Article #349Re: Something is stripping blanks....
From: Matt Madison
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:34
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:34
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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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TGV, Inc. | 603 Mission Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!tgv.com!MADISON From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison) Subject: Re: Something is stripping blanks.... Message-ID: <1992Dec29.183421.22777@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov 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 Lines: 20