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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.
 
 
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