On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Jinx wrote:

>> I personally prefer spaces and no tabs. Why? because there is
>> no standard tab spacing, but 8 is the most common. However,
>> if you display your 4-space tabs as 8-space tabs, the document
>> will look very messy. (Not to mention, the piclist archive of your
>> tabbed files will look horrible)
>
>Nothing more tedious than removing all the tabs from a piece of
>someone's code so you can do a half-decent printout or fit the
>routine into your own screen format

You should *really* get a copy of the GNU textutils compiled for
DOS/Win32. You want the programs expand and unexpand as Scott Dattalo has
said. Try to type 'unexpand.exe' into Google. Maybe it is floating
somewhere outside its original archive (which is large but worth your
while ...).

Peter

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