Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:55:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ben Darnell <bdarnell AT vnet DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Text editors
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Ben Darnell wrote:

> that line.  unexpand (one of the textutils) will convert tabs to
> spaces (the cat is needed to force it to use a temporary file):
> unexpand %1 | cat > %1

Is something wrong with Textutils which prevents "unexpand %1 > file" from
working, or you just want to be able to put the output into the same file
as the input?