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- ........................[ DETAB.DOC ]......for OS/2...from WSI.................
- DETAB is free software, written by Roger Wilkes.
-
- This program will convert TAB characters into the desired number of
- blanks. If you have a text file which contains TAB characters, the TAB
- character had meaning at the time it was placed into the text, but may no
- longer have that same meaning - the meaning of a TAB character is always
- lost as soon as some piece of hardware using it is replaced or changed.
- In order to give the exact original meaning (in number of spaces that the
- TAB character represents) to the TAB character, this program will convert
- those TAB characters to their true meaning (some number of spaces).
-
- EX: you have a text file which contains TAB characters which originally
- meant "move me to a mod 7 column # across the text line. Now you wish
- to do something useful with the text file - such as print it. The
- chances are pretty good that a printer would have to be modified or
- loaded with TAB codes in order to print the text file as it originally
- looked when created. The name of this text file is "text". To detab
- this file:
-
- DETAB 7 <text >textout
-
- where "textout" is the name of the text file with TABs converted to
- blanks.
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