Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Special character constants
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.162543.7422@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1292@mti.mti.com> <1991Jan16.174248.2689@zoo.toronto.edu> <1063@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 1991 16:25:43 GMT

In article <1063@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
>... If we drive this to the extreme, can we really
>depend on spaces to produce certain visible space on some output device?
>Or is it just so that the *probability* of space-characters producing
>some space on output devices is higher than for tab-characters?

The latter.  The interpretation of space is mostly agreed on; not so for tab.
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