Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!ni.umd.edu!sayshell.umd.edu!louie From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: OK, I've stopped hyperventilating... Message-ID: <1990Oct19.220704.14186@ni.umd.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 22:07:04 GMT References: <1990Oct19.134307.2855@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@ni.umd.edu (USENET News System) Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: sayshell.umd.edu In article <1990Oct19.134307.2855@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.uucp writes: >Even though the recently distributed patches have all their tabs >turned into spaces, they can still be applied if you use "-l"... I suspect that some evil, upstream site "helped" you by converting those tabs to spaces. IBM mainframes that claim to do news have been know to do this. The patches that arrived here didn't seem to suffer that indignity, and were applied with no problems. louie