Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tabs converted to spaces?
Keywords: sed, expand
Message-ID: <569@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 10:20:59 GMT
References: <3940001@hpgrla.HP.COM> <187@alobar.ATT.COM> <566@philmds.UUCP> <453@jonlab.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <453@jonlab.UUCP> jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
|I'm unfamiliar with expand/unexpand.  BSD, comp.unix.sources?

BSD.

|What I have used, at least on System V boxes,
|is the "newform" command, for example:
|
|	newform -i6,20,35 file_name
|
|for columns at 0, 6, 20, and 35.  Tabs in the file, spaces
|on standard out.

Expand works about the same (minor difference). Unexpand works the
other way around. B.T.W. I find both names - expand & newform -
not very descriptive.

|Is this inappropriate or somehow showing my age?

Neither. Unless in the sense of: true wizdom comes with age 8-).

|-- 
|Jon LaBadie
|{att, ulysses, princeton}!jonlab!jon

       Leo.