James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
> > * Be carefull with using TABS in script code, they are not portable
> > between editors or platforms
>
> Could you clarify this one, please?
>
> Are you referring to the ASCII TAB (0x09) character? If so, what's
> not "portable" about it? Are you hinting at the people who
> misconfigure their editors away from the Right And True 8-character
> tab stops to something bizarre such as 4-character?
If an editor does not doesl correctly with tabs, this is not a problem
of shell scripts. Just avoid this editor ;-)
J?rg
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