May 15, 2003

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

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