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From: steve@avalon.dartmouth.edu (Steve Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Tab
Message-ID: <24981@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 9 Oct 90 01:21:26 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.223936.26231@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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In article <1990Sep28.223936.26231@ibmpcug.co.uk> demon@ibmpcug.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) writes:
>Using the builtin text-gobbler, I hate not being able to 
>enter a TAB.  Is there a simple patch for this?

Yes.

*** /tmp/,RCSt1029047	Mon Oct  8 21:11:01 1990
--- in_utils.c	Thu May 17 10:54:23 1990
***************
*** 252,258 ****
  	    string[0] = '\0'; /* clean up string, and... */
  	    return(-1);
  	  }
! 	  else if (!passwd && !isprint(ch)) {
  	    /* non-printing character - warn with bell*/
  	    /* don't turn off escaping backslash since current character
  	     * doesn't "use it up".
--- 252,258 ----
  	    string[0] = '\0'; /* clean up string, and... */
  	    return(-1);
  	  }
! 	  else if (!passwd && !isprint(ch) && !isspace(ch)) {
  	    /* non-printing character - warn with bell*/
  	    /* don't turn off escaping backslash since current character
  	     * doesn't "use it up".