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In this format each record of the database is on a separate line and each field is delimited by a tab character . It is the comic-book style and the robot characters that save the day in this picture-book-sized volume . In these modes , use C-b C-d to delete a tab character before point . Each text character on the display is replaced by a character that represents its attribute . A boundary is caused by delimiter characters , such as a newline , carriage return , carriage return-newline pair , or Unicode paragraph separator character . " The horizontal tab character ( code position 9 in the HTML document character set ) must be interpreted as the smallest positive nonzero number of spaces which will leave the number of characters so far on the line as a multiple of 8 . They are now in a ' spreadsheet ' format , in which all fields are separated by a TAB character . Evidently this line of computers must be very hard to program ; from what little I know about them , everything is " different " - - the text character set ( it 's not ASCII ) , the file system ( probably record - oriented ) , the communication methods ( some kind of bizarre proprietary " twinax " block-mode affair ) . No extra information could be given because each text character takes an 8x8 tile , and the borders of the GUI window take up 16 pixels . " \ t " indicates a tab character . Hacked the Hershey romans font used by VMD to yield constant widths for the numeric digit characters , and for the space ' ' , and deciman point ' .