🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.mac
Article #21577

Re: Expand Tab Utility

#21577
From: Paul Smethers
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1987 10:18
11 lines
1095 bytes
In article <1013@kodak.UUCP> mcgrath@kodak.UUCP (bill mcgrath) writes:
>I am looking for a utility which will allow me to expand tabs in a document
>with the correct number of spaces and export the modified document to
>a text file allowing me to Kermit it to other systems for inclusion in other
>plain text documents.  Some spreadsheet programs such as Lotus allow
>export as an ascii print file with tabs expanded.  is there anything like
>this for the MAC?

Try mpw's "Entab tabbedFile -t 0 > detabbedFile"

Paul Smethers
Technical Details
Message-ID: <443@psu-cs.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!smethers
References: <1013@kodak.UUCP>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!smethers
From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Expand Tab Utility
Message-ID: <443@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 05:18:44 EST
Article-I.D.: psu-cs.443
Posted: Fri Nov 13 05:18:44 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 07:18:09 EST
References: <1013@kodak.UUCP>
Reply-To: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
Lines: 11