octal forty
/ok´tl for´tee/
n.
Hackish way of saying I'm drawing a blank.
Octal 40
is the ASCII space character, 0100000; by an odd
coincidence, hex 40 (01000000) is the
EBCDIC space character. See
wall.
Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:36 AM