On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Eike Rathke wrote: [...]
Sorry, but there's no such thing as a "tab delimited file". There are text files that contain tabs, some of them are intended to be used as "delimited files", others are not.
That's what I mean a table where the columns are delimited by tabs. This is also know as tab delimited.
.txt has never been an extension to indicate tab-delimited.
.txt has been an extension to indicate a text file. Some of these text files contain a table where the data is organized in columns which are delimited by tabs. Around 5 years ago, I also saw a fair number of these labeled with the .tab file name extension. Most (all?) spreadsheets and databases that I saw from 1985-1999 saved this kind of file with the .txt extension.
I don't have old copies of or even my old manuals from Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro, Qubecalc, MS-Excel4 & 5, etc. so I can't cite specifics, but I think you understand what Frank is requesting.
-Lars
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