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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:13:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FICL and setting BTX variables
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901121005501.15079-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <19990112155325.A32880@clear.co.nz>

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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"," ");

Otherwise, I like it.

Andrzej Bialecki

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