TAB at EOL (GPG and PGP interoperability)

Knut Forkalsrud knut@cj.com
Fri Jan 10 19:16:02 2003


vedaal@hush.com writes:

> which leaves a puzzling question:
> why would the files Knut was referring to have a 'tab' at the end of
> a line?

There may be all sorts of reasons.  I have no control of what people
type when they send me a message.  One case may be that someone hits
TAB in their editor by accident.  Most editors don't show trailing
whitespace, so it's easy to overlook.

Another possibility is that they try to send me a file for my spread
sheet with TAB separated values.  If the last value on a line is
empty, a TAB may become the last character on that line.

-Knut