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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 'expand' utility
Message-ID: <90@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 11:47:32 GMT
References: <395@irs3.UUCP> <3922@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <3922@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
>What does 'expand' do?

Same as "detab" in the Software Tools book: it expands tabs in its input
into a specified number (default: 8) of spaces.
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