Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 01:34:54 EDT From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: O_TEXT/O_BINARY grief Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu > I don't know about ANSI, but the only reference to whitespace I found in a 15 > second look at the K&R index was to the whitespace counting program, where > '\r' is not considered white space. We are getting rather off topic, but K&R 2nd edition, pages 157, 245 and 249 each say that the white space characters are blank, tab, newline, carriage return, vertical tab and formfeed.