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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:34:36 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk
CC: Oliver Richman <oliver AT hv DOT jesus DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Make 3.77 uploaded
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George Foot wrote:
 
> If it is a real problem, it should be trivial to write a sed script
> or C program to tabify the file -- or just use an existing program
> to do this.  Ideally you'd only want to do this to command lines
> (i.e. indented lines following lines containing colons not suffixed
> by equal signs [or some similar rule]).

The program `expand' (or perhaps it's `unexpand') from textutils could
be a good start.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com