Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:16:00 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Danny van Bruggen <lghq1 AT dds DOT nl DOT removethis>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Tabs in makefiles
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Danny van Bruggen wrote:

> Since I started reading this newsgroup I have seen many complaints
> about having to use tabs in makefiles. To avoid this and still keep
> compatability with Unix I put together a little utility which will
> take a file and substitute all spaces at the beginning of a line with
> a single tab.

A program which does that, called `unexpand', is part of GNU Textutils
(v2gnu/txt122b.zip), so there's no need to duplicate the effort,
except for the fun of it, of course.