Subj : Tabs.
To   : All
From : Tinman
Date : Wed Apr 05 2000 05:04 pm

Im try-ing to write what i thought would be a very simple text file viewer that
pauses the screen after 24 lines of text. <please dont laph at me>

Anyhow, im having a problem. It seems that the [TAB] space is throwing my line
counter off. The way i have it setup is each time it reads a tab space from the
file it incraments the counter 8 logical charictor positions, but what i have
found is that the tab space is not always 8 chars long even if it is set to
that length...

Like at the dos prompt, if you type some text  and then hit tab two times, you
would think that it would display 16 spaces, (8*2), but it doesnt always do
that?!?.

Is there some rule that a tab space must change size depending on where it
apears in a string of text??? if so, could somebodey explain it to me?

please... :-)

-tinman-

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