From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 10:13:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 390FF106566B for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:13:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ash@contact.bg) Received: from mg.btc-net.bg (sws-ha-1.btc-net.bg [212.39.90.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CDBD8FC1A for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ash@contact.bg) Received: (qmail 18734 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2008 09:47:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 3 Apr 2008 09:47:13 -0000 Received: from 87.126.11.208 ( [87.126.11.208]) as user ash@contact.bg@127.0.0.1 by www.contact.bg with HTTP; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:47:12 +0200 Message-ID: <1207216032.47f4a7a067cca@www.contact.bg> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:47:12 +0200 From: ash@contact.bg To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Webmail-Contact.bg X-WebMail-Company: CONTACT.BG X-Originating-IP: 87.126.11.208 Subject: Question regarding the tabs utility plus xterm in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:13:57 -0000 Hi everybody, I would like to ask about the behaviour of the tabs utility in FreeBSD and xterm. I am the coordinator for Gnome translations in Bulgarian but I have experience mostly with Fedora and none with FreeBSD. Some of the translation output that goes to a terminal contains tabs. (ASCII 9 - Horizontal Tabs). I found out that FreeBSD contains an implementation of the POSIX tabs utility which should be able to change tab positions. I do not have access to a FreeBSD install (much less - one with xterm) and hoped that someone could help me find out whether it is possible to change the tabs in a xterm session (or the FreeBSD console) so that when a file containing tabs is output - the tabs will be spaced differently than the usual default (which at least at my machine is 8 spaces) Kind regards: al_shopov