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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard Indentation etc.
Message-ID: <5255@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 16:16:18 GMT
References: <291@gsg.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <291@gsg.UUCP> lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew) writes:
     Once a programmer changed his tab indentation to 4 spaces and
     guess what happen when he tried to print the file?...If you use
     'ed' to edit a vi file with tabstop set to 4, you better make sure
     your terminal is wide enough.  You can not show your file on your
     colleague's terminal with 8 spaces tabs without extra work...

I usually do something like this:

     pr file ... | expand -3 | lpr               # to print
     less -x3 file ...                           # to send to screen
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi