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- DeTab -- replace tab characters with spaces
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- Syntax DeTab [file] <file >output
-
- Description DeTab replaces tab characters (ASCII 9) in the input file with
- runs of spaces. The input file may be specified on the command
- line and must be of type TXT or SRC. DeTab will alternately accept
- standard input as the input file. The converted file is sent to
- standard output.
-
- The size of each tab field is determined by the file's language
- stamp. DeTab will use the tab definition line found in the SysTabs
- file corresponding to the language number of the file. If standard
- input is used as the source file, a standard tab line with tab
- positions every fourth character position will be used.
-
-
- Input Standard input is read if no file is specified on the command
- line.
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- Output File characters are written to standard output.
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- Diagnostics Errors are written to diagnostic output (standard error output).
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- Status DeTab may return the following status codes:
-
- 0 No errors
- 1 Bad filetype for input source file
- 2 Unable to open file
- -1 User abort
-
- Options none.
-
- Examples Change Derez.out Rez
- DeTab Derez.out >mystuff.rez
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- First, the file "Derez.out" has it's language stamp set to "Rez".
- Next, DeTab is used to convert tab characters to runs of spaces,
- using the tab definition line for the Rez language to determine the
- tab stops (from the 4/SysTabs file).
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-
- DeRez myfile.stuff | DeTab >myfile.rez
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- The resource decompiler is used to translate the resource fork of
- the file "myfile.stuff", pipelining it's output to be the input to
- the DeTab tool. The final result of the processing will be placed
- in the file "myfile.rez" as editable, Rez source code.
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