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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:54:32 +0900
From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
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Subject: Re: FICL and setting BTX variables
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> > # some general early substitutions
> > {
> >   gsub("\t", "    ");                 # replace each tab with 4 spaces
> 
> Mhm.. I'm not sure. One of the goals here is also to make the resulting
> string as short as possible, because it directly influences the size of
> /boot/loader later. The string doesn't have to be nicely formatted, it
> just has to compile. So, I'd suggest gsub("\t"," ");

Let me come in Joe's defense here. :-) I told him that we wanted
this really stripped, but I also mentioned that when I first got to
replace this script, I decided to first write a 100% compatible
replacement, and *then* apply patches to it, so the 100% compatible
replacement would be in the repo.

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