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From: u3369429@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au (Michael Bednarek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: Untabify utility
Message-ID: <309@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 18 May 88 10:29:03 GMT
References: <8805170715.AA03292@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <8805170715.AA03292@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, LEICHTER@Venus.YCC.Yale.EDU ("Jerry Leichter ", LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU) writes:
> 
> 	Has anyone written a good UNTABIFY utility?
>       [...]
> From the DECUS C library.  In the interests of completeness, I've included
> both detab and entab.
> 							-- Jerry
> [...]

Thanks. But people should be aware of the special case of Fortran Carriage-
control files. You don't want to change the space in column one which is
followed by seven spaces into a TAB, do you?

A while ago, I published in this group DETAB and TAB_IT, command procedures
with embedded TPU code. They not only go to great lengths to handle Fortran
Carriagecontrol files, they also handle tab stops other than eight. They
do not cater for asymmetric tab stops, though.

I noticed that TPU would go into infinite loops when I tried to use TAB_IT
on large (>300 blocks) files. Does anyone out there know anything about this?
--
Michael Bednarek, Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (IAESR)
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