Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/29247: fmt should not expand tabs. Message-ID: <200108060940.f769e1671337@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/29247; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ayan George <ayan@tyra.durocom.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/29247: fmt should not expand tabs. Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:35:35 +0300 On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:47:06PM -0400, Ayan George wrote: > > The new fmt command expands tabs to spaces by default. This is completely > broken compared with the behavior of the old fmt. > The old fmt(1) did that too. Could you please send me an example where the old fmt does do this for you? > Why did we change it anyway? > Because it was way too broken. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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