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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:02:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interesting ways to print 3000 spaces...
Message-ID:  <199908291802.UAA13335@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Replying to myself...

 > [...]
 > There would be another nice solution possible, but...
 > 
 >    printf '\t' | expand -3000
 > 
 > Expand refuses to use tab stops > 256.  :-(
 > I think I'll fix that and submit a PR.

bin/13453

By the way, a friend of mine suggested the following as an
alternative.  This is probably the easiest way to create
3000 spaces:

   printf "%3000s"

Regards
   Oliver

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