Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew
From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Do use TAB3
Message-ID: <10629@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 01:08:44 GMT
References: <130@tree.UUCP> <30@ncrdk.dk>
Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon
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Re gettydefs:

	"dont use TAB3, it means "expand tabs to spaces"; normally that
	would be wrong (VERY wrong sometimes) for uucp-traffic."

I disagree.  On a conventional dialup, you do want TAB3, for the case
where the user has a musty old terminal without hardwired tabs, and
there are tabs in /etc/motd.  UUCP had better be doing its own ioctls
to condition the line the way it wants.

(I'm typing this on an hp2621a, connected via a modem.  The terminal
powers up with no tab stops; they are programmed by my .cshrc, which
doesn't execute until after login prints /etc/motd.)


  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!hammer!frip!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com@relay.cs.net)  [ARPA]