Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:43:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
Cc: Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about RSXNTDJ?
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com wrote:

> DOS had no such facility DOS PRINT send untranslated characters to the 
> printer.)  Therefore DOS editors translated tabs so that printed  
> documents looked like their onscreen source.  Once the edlin standard 
> was established it propagated. > 

At least in latest (3.2 and above) versions of DOS, PRINT *does* expand
TABs.  But PRINT was not available with the first version of DOS (nobody
could at first imagine that background programs like that are at all
possible on MSDOS, remember?), so maybe this problem predates PRINT as
well?