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Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade


Christopher Faylor wrote:

?  The OSes that I used didn't need padding.  I just stayed within 7[2]
characters and used a new card when I needed to move to the next "line".

Well, of course, all the unpunched columns in the card *are* spaces, so by definition, punched cards are space-padded. Unless you had variable-length cards :-).


PS Real programmers can (could? by definition?) read punched cards by holding them up to the light. Oh, and at normal (human) reading speeds, too.


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