From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:45:55 -0400
Message-Id: <9610071445.AA07289@quasar.bloomberg.com >
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961007154009.4398A-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:43:36 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about RSXNTDJ?
Reply-To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

   Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:43:36 +0200 (IST)
   From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

   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?

Good point.  Could be.  I have not used PRINT in ages so you are probable right
about that as well, at least since MS-DOS 3.1+.  I distinctly remember that one
of the reasons I originally wrote my pr utility for DOS was to print with
expanded tabs and that was DOS 3.0 or earlier.

-- 
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it.  -- John Keats