From: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Tom Wheeley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Tabs in makefiles
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 97 17:27:59 GMT
Organization: Adventures and Diving
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970403171534 DOT 27318L-100000 AT is>
           eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il "Eli Zaretskii" writes:

> 
> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Danny van Bruggen wrote:
> 
> > Since I started reading this newsgroup I have seen many complaints
> > about having to use tabs in makefiles. To avoid this and still keep
> > compatability with Unix I put together a little utility which will
> > take a file and substitute all spaces at the beginning of a line with
> > a single tab.
> 
> A program which does that, called `unexpand', is part of GNU Textutils
> (v2gnu/txt122b.zip), so there's no need to duplicate the effort,
> except for the fun of it, of course.

coo.  I always used `pr -t -i'

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