From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 6 2:40: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D0A37B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f769e1671337; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108060940.f769e1671337@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: bin/29247: fmt should not expand tabs. Reply-To: Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/29247; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ayan George 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. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message