Tom Buck on thu 28 mar 02
Anne: W:
Each operating system (Windows, Mac OS10, Unix, etc.) tends to use
its own (unique) binary code for "TAB" and for "SPACE BAR" and other
"SPACING" keys. Hence the confusion.
your post goes from one file server (a computer) to another
distant one, mostly over telephone lines (copper pair). The telephone
companies were asked to design "protocols" (now the Internet scheme). This
method uses "packets", that is, the message is chopped into "packets"
(small pieces of approx 1024 bytes), and each packet with a lineup code
attached is transmitted separately, often by different routes. when all
the packets are received, the file server massages the data-stream and
rebuilds the written data. most files servers have simple programs that
make arbitrary decisions on spacing, hence the jumble.
if you want the recipe, etc., not to be garbled, then make the
numbers part of the name:
23.0 nepheline syenite
33.5 Kona F-4 fedlspar
and this way each line is treated as a "paragraph" by the program
reassembling the packets.
You could also use "periods" or ......, that is:
Al2O3........0.32
SiO2.........3.32
and so on, and again the assembler would handle this ok.
For sometime, some Clayarters (myself included) have tried to
convince posters to avoid "SPACING" (except word spacing) in recipes.
Perhaps this explanation will add to the argument.
til later. Peace. Tom B.
Tom Buck ) tel: 905-389-2339
(westend Lake Ontario, province of Ontario, Canada).
mailing address: 373 East 43rd Street,
Hamilton ON L8T 3E1 Canada
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