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From: Clarence Dold <dold@yellow.rahul.net>
Subject: Re: Spaces consolidated in echo command
Date: 16 Jun 2000 02:13:51 GMT
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
John Hill <jhill@sawmillmanager.com> wrote:
: I do not have any leading or trailing spaces. I am using the box
: drawing characters to display a rectangular box and the sides of the
: box is made of two verticle lines with spaces between each set. For
: example " || || ". I have about 30 spaces
: between them but the display only shows about 5. I thought is might
My uninformed guess would be that you are crafting the file in "vi", and
that it is politely replacing a bunch of spaces with a few tab characters,
which your output device doesn't understand.
col -x would convert the tabs to spaces.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@rahul.net
- San Jose & Pope Valley (Napa County) CA.