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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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