Tabs , in Ed and DNews

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From: Ian ROWLANDS
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 1990 15:05

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	Can anybody explain to me why Ed and things like Dnews don't handle
tabs properly? Ed only seems to make a tab 2 or 3 spaces, while Dnews puts
a funny character where a tab should be. Is this normal, why does this happen
and is there an easy way around it (no, I don't think running all my news
articles through a program which expand tabs is easy)?

	It only happens (or seems to) on the Workbench screen. I use a utility
which puts a shell on a seperate screen, and it doesn't happen there.

	Thank in advance,
				Ian

Ian Rowlands                     | Uni : ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au 
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 (including Computer Science)    | Home : ianr@gpark.pub.uu.oz.au (soon) 
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Subject: Tabs , in Ed and DNews
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