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From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C and cprintf(..
Keywords: Ver. 1.5, tabs
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Date: 28 Jan 89 21:49:40 GMT
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In article <1509@aucs.UUCP> 850181p@aucs.UUCP (STEVEN E. PARKER) writes:
>
>
>  I seem to be having problems with Turbo C ver. 1.5 and its cprintf
>routine. The \t (tab) seems to print funny faces instead of moving a
>tab! I'm sorry if this has come up before. Thanks in advance.
>

Sorry, you have to do it yourself. I know, that's a big
nuisance.

Try:

void tab()
{
	while ((wherex()-1) % 8)
		cprintf(" ");
}

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