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Q32033: Preventing Generation of Tabs in the Edited Disk Files

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Article: Q32033
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 1.00   | 1.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 25-JUL-1988

It is impossible to search for a tab or replace a string with a tab
in the M editor.
   When a file is being edited, there are no tab characters in the
file. When the M editor reads from disk to memory, it converts tabs to
spaces. When it writes from memory to disk, it converts spaces to tabs
(unless you set the ENTAB switch to 0).
   This may create problems when devices other than your machine
access the file. For example, if you edit a source file on your IBM PC
with the M editor, then try to compile the source file on a mainframe,
the source file may not compile because of the tabs in the disk file
created by the M editor.
   The solution is to set ENTAB to 0 in the TOOLS.INI file; this value
will prevent tabs from being used to represent white space when
writing from memory to disk.
   For more information on the ENTAB switch, please refer to Table 7.2
on Page 59 of the "Microsoft Editor User's Guide."

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