From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: n
Date: 27 Feb 1997 04:00:01 GMT
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John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote:

: Actually, Edit (for DOS 6.22 at least) can be convinced to use real tabs
: instead of spaces, but this is probably a bug rather than a feature.  If
: you load a file into Edit that contains raw tabs, it suddenly
: "magically" stops converting them to spaces.  If this isn't the case in
: the Win95 (aka DOS 7) version, then it was probably unintentional and
: has been "fixed."

As I wrote, I think this doesn't work in Win95's version. I used to use
DOS 6.22's version (no, really, I did!), but when I upgraded to Win95,
being the gullible idiot I am, it no longer worked, and I resorted to
using Windows Notepad for makefiles. Until I discovered PFE :)

: BTW, I don't want to start off another anti-MS flamewar, but is it
: possible that MS deliberately disabled the Tab feature of Edit in order
: to prevent people from writing makefiles for Unixy programs on DOS
: boxes?  Or am I just being paranoid?

Heh. Wouldn't that just encourage Unix-compatible people to go away
and use Unix/Linux systems? Bad policy for a megalomaniacal leader
of a monopolistic company...

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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.