Re: JAVACC: Adjstments to column number for tab (\t) chars

"Barry Kelly" <barry_j_kelly@hotmial.com>
29 May 2001 23:17:15 -0400

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From: "Barry Kelly" <barry_j_kelly@hotmial.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 29 May 2001 23:17:15 -0400
Organization: Ireland On-Line Customer
References: 01-05-009 01-05-044
Keywords: history, comment
Posted-Date: 29 May 2001 23:17:14 EDT

"RKRayhawk" <rkrayhawk@aol.com> wrote in message
news:01-05-044@comp.compilers...


[...]


> I would not be surprised
> if the standard of tab points at every eight position across the
> screen came from DEC equipment. It is not inconceivable that fixed
> position tabulation arrived with TTY devices, predating raster scan
> technology.


[...]


> [Eight-character tab stops on Teletypes were standard when I started using
> computers in the late 1960s. -John]


My typewriter has an eight-character tab key.


-- Barry
[Enough, already. -John]

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