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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: getty sets tabs
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 11:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 11:57:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Sep-84 11:57:00 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Getty(8) has been modified to exploit the hardware tabs feature found
in many CRTs.  Getty now leaves the expand-tabs bit off if the terminal
is not a hardcopy terminal and the termcap entry indicates the presence
of hardware tabs.  Furthermore, getty now handles both the "is" and "if"
capabilities properly, to initialize tabs.  Hardcopy terminals are exempt
from "if" for safety reasons, since tab-setting on some hardcopy terminals
involves sudden violent motion of the printhead.

The termcap description for the Ampex D175 has been augmented with the
necessary information for tab-setting.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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