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Subject: Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
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I used the backticks to specify the command I used at the command line.  When
I type that command, I get the contents of the file with spaces before each
character (yes, the spaces appear to come before each character).

I am installing additional fonts as was suggested earlier.


gmarsha11 wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>> 
>> gmarsha11 wrote:
>> 
>>> then, `cat abc.txt` returns
>>> 
>>> T h i s  i s  a b c  f i l e
>>> 
>>> Anyone know what might cause this?
>> 
>> What do you mean by "[backtick] returns"?  Can you paste a full example
>> testcase?  What is the file's encoding?  If it's a unicode file with a
>> UTF-16 encoding then you would expect something like the above,
>> depending on how you're interpreting the output.
>> 
>> Brian
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