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From: straka@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Expand Tab Utility
Message-ID: <2759@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 13:49:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 12 13:49:40 1987
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In article <1013@kodak.UUCP> mcgrath@kodak.UUCP (bill mcgrath) writes:
|I am looking for a utility which will allow me to expand tabs in a document
|with the correct number of spaces and export the modified document to
|a text file allowing me to Kermit it to other systems for inclusion in other
|plain text documents.  Some spreadsheet programs such as Lotus allow
|export as an ascii print file with tabs expanded.  is there anything like
|this for the MAC?

Some people might call this annoying Lotus 123 attribute a feature.  It is a
limitation.  Has anyone tried to do anything with a print file without tab
field delimiters?  What a PAIN!  (Yes, I know that Excel 1.04 can read 123R2
files, but then not everyone can or wants to go through the cost and/or
hassle.)

In answer to the above question, if you are on a Unix(R) system, try:
newform -i   This expands tabs to spaces using user-definable tabspecs.
Newform -o does the opposite, but you might have to be more careful with
regard to tab spec associativity.
-- 
Rich Straka     ihnp4!ihlpf!straka

Advice for the day: "MSDOS - just say no."