At 04:34 PM 6/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Use the Brief editor. It has a global (file scope) replace that accepts the
>tab key as a character to replace. Replace with four space chars.

That would make a royal mess of things in some cases.

I suggest using a nice editor such as the shareware Ultraedit.

http://www.ultraedit.com

Set the tab settings to the way the document was formatted, then use
Format->Tabs to Spaces

presto, change-o and it is formatted for universal consumption <cough>

Best regards,

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