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From: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: text breakup in vnews
Message-ID: <1528@killer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 01:07:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1528
Posted: Tue Sep 15 01:07:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 02:04:12 EDT
References: <1127@gilsys.UUCP>
Organization: HASA
Lines: 23
Keywords: vnews, broken output, TVI-803
Summary: Tabs are your culprit.

mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) in <1127@gilsys.UUCP>:

>    One of my users calls in from home on a Televideo 803 (CP/M system
> w/integral TVI825 terminal).   I am using the TVI825 termcap for him.
> He experiences *VERY* strange behaviour while using vnews:
> 
>    Many of the inter-word spaces are missing.  Not all, and it appears to be
> randomly distributed, but MOST of the spaces just disappear.  
> 
>    Oddly enough, if he saves an article to a file, it looks FINE when viewed
> with more, or with vi.  I am at a loss to explain this behaviour to him.
> Perhaps someone out there has seen similar behaviour and has an explanation/
> fix?

Tabs are your problem. It appears your user's CP/M machine isn't properly
handling tab characters.. or, more succinctly, it's ignoring them. Vnews
plasters the things all over the place. It makes quite a mess on MY home
computer, as well.

Have him drop a
	stty tab3
in his .profile; this will make UNIX expand tab characters into spaces.
That should cure vnews' obnoxious behavior. If not.. I dunno.