Subject: TAB

From: Roger Crew <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 19:10:34 -0700

TREATMENT OF TAB CHARACTERS CHANGES
     The server used to treat any TAB (Ctrl-I) characters you typed as
  if they were spaces.  Be aware that they are now preserved as real TAB
  characters and can be output as such.

AAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!  

You had gotten this one right the first time.

The use of TAB characters is a leftover from the typewriter era (much
like the distinction between CR and LF) and IMNSHO is one of the
broken features (interpretations, really) about ASCII that should be
left in the dustbin with SOH, STX, ^Q & ^S for flow control, etc....  

Once TAB becomes available, people will start using it, blithely assuming 
that everyone has the same tab settings on his/her terminal (or any tab 
settings at all for that matter).

--
Roger Crew
Internet:   [email-masked]
LambdaMOO:  Rog

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From: Larry Masinter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 22:28:53 -0700

This patch was necessary to get gopher to work. It's the only special
character used by gopher or world-wide-web.

Yes, MOOers shouldn't use tab characters in their descriptions.