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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
In-Reply-To: <32e5409f.2265117@news.vnet.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970122085402.29370K-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

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? 

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