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From: Martin.Scharnke@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Martin Scharnke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: MS-DOS Tabs
Message-ID: <1991May01.012034.10419@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 1 May 91 01:20:34 GMT
Sender: martin@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Martin Scharnke)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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I have a really icky problem...wanting to use the DOS PRINT spooler using the multiplex interrupt I have found that tabs are universally expanded to 8 spaces.

		I HATE THIS!!!

My favourite tab size is 2, and writing a string to my printer to set tab size to 2 is no great hassle (Esc + "e" + 0 + 2 is the string from memory).

But calling the PRINT spooler (which I do so that I can print in the background) causes space to be sustituted for tabs - Grrrrr!

Does anyone know of a hack/patch that can change this. Or is my only solution to write my own spooling TSR (Something I don't want to have to do! :-} )

Any help appreciated...

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