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From: rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Need help with L.sys entry
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Date: 17 Oct 90 17:06:20 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.005926.10052@almira.uucp> haug@Columbia.NCR.COM (Brian Haug) writes:

>I believe to be portable (at least for ASCII machines) which is to use the
>octal escape sequence \020 which is the code for a space.

020 is the hex code for space; octal would be 040.  020 is the octal code for
^P, which would give unpredictable results.
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