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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: pr bug in HP-UX 2.1
Message-ID: <4640011@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 89 00:26:38 GMT
References: <114@geysir.os.is>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> When I installed 2.1 HP-UX, the behavior of the pr command changed.
> Pr now  inserts unwanted tab characters into files that contain
> 8-bit character codes, when outputting more than one column.

Thank you for reporting this problem.  The problem appears to be in
the terminal I/O driver rather than pr.  If you use stty to set the
output mode "tab3" (expand spaces to tabs), a simpler instance of the
problem is shown by:

	$ echo '888\t7'		(replace "888" by 8-bit characters)
	888        7
	$ echo '777\t7'
	777     7

The 8-bit characters are apparently not being counted when a tab is
expanded for display.  A workaround for your problem would be to use
stty to set the tab output mode to "tab0".

I will forward this problem to the appropriate folks.

Wayne Krone
Hewlett-Packard