[Info-vax] Removing blank lines from text files

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <82263778-5611-49f1-a1c8-7315270a0018 at googlegroups.com>,
Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes: 

> > It is pure DCL.  It is quick.  It is one line.  It works. 
> > Why go elsewhere? 
> 
>    Different meaning of "works"?
> 
> > Alas, that also finds lines with whitespace but no text.

Right, but the subject is "Removing blank lines from text files".  OK, 
depends on the definition of "blank".  :-)

Some curmudgeons claim that since a non-punched position on a punch card 
corresponds to space, then a blank line in Fortran should consist of 80 
spaces.  

One of the reasons that blanks were not significant in Fortran was to 
allow for mis-punched cards to be taped over, resulting in a blank, but 
this should be ignored in case it was too dangerous to re-punch it in 
the same column.