From:	SerDevian <scriven AT CS DOT ColoState DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: n
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:28:57 -0700
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George Foot wrote:
> It's difficult to say without seeing the makefile itself, but check that
> the leading symbol on your command lines is a tab, not some spaces. Some
> editors (e.g. Win95's EDIT) have a non-disablable "feature" which replaces
> all the tabs in the file with an appropriate number of spaces... this
> makes these editors useless for writing makefiles.

Um, I'm no fan of Edit, but there is a way to get it to use a real tab. 
Try pressing Ctrl-P, <tab>.  That will put a real tab in.  Also, it only
converts tabs to spaces on the lines you actually edit.  The others are
left alone (for me, anyway; I'm using Win95 build 1111's edit program).


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