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Q31488: UTILITY.DOC: Filetab Switch Expands Tabs |
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Article: Q31488
Version(s): 1.00 | 1.00
Operating System: OS/2 | MS-DOS
Flags: ENDUSER | tar71845
Last Modified: 16-JUN-1988
Information about the filetab switch can be found in the
UTILITY.DOC file that comes with the Microsoft BASIC Compiler Version
6.00, the Microsoft C Compiler Version 5.10, the Microsoft FORTRAN
Compiler Version 4.10 and the README.DOC for Microsoft MASM Version
5.10.
The filetab switch is a numeric switch that determines how the
editor translates tabs when loading a file into memory. The value of
the switch gives the number of spaces associated with each tab column.
For example, the setting "filetab:4" assumes a tab column every four
positions on each line of a file.
Every time the editor finds a tab character in a file, it loads the
buffer with the number of spaces necessary to get to the next tab
column. Depending on the value of the entab switch, the editor also
uses the filetab switch to determine how to convert spaces into tabs
when writing a file.
The default value of filetab is eight (8).