Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!SCROLLS.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU!shull From: shull@SCROLLS.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU (Christopher E. Shull) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: RE: Tab Characters Message-ID: <8806091649.AA00369@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu> Date: 9 Jun 88 16:49:49 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 In Message-Id: <8806080112.AA24371@umix.cc.umich.edu>, Scott Ferguson (ferguson@bknlvms.bitnet) asks for suggestions on how to get actual tab characters from the keyboard, in a sendmail.cf editting exercise. There are several ways to do this, each of which has its pros and cons :-) 1) Use vi to edit the file. The drawbacks are obvious to everyone except those folks that like vi. 2) Redefine a key to issue the DM command 'er 09'. This means issue a ^I. Drawback is that it only works in raw mode -- and NOT in DM editor windows and input pads. 3) Use emacs. Drawback is that most folks don't have emacs. 4) Use DM editor to copy a tab character from a file someplace, and paste it where ever you need it. This works all over the DM so far as I can tell. For example, in the substitute command. I wrote '', then issued to the DM Command: s// / and got ' '. Note that a real tab character appears above between both the // and the ''. I pasted it from another mail message. 5) Use the AEGIS chpat command. Type out where ever you want a tab, then use the following AEGIS command: $ chpat temp -p "=TAB=" "@t" >temp.out Clearly this is a pain. Best of luck! -Chris Christopher E. Shull Decision Sciences Department The Wharton School shull@wharton.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania shull@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 215/898-5930 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Admiral Farragut, USN, 1801-1870 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------