Bug in tset(1) - (nf)

Tue May 1 09:08:14 AEST 1984

#R:cca:-37600:fortune:2000012:000:868
fortune!rpw3    Apr 30 14:16:00 1984

+--------------------
| Take a terminal with settable tab stops and auto wrap and issue
| the tset(1) command.  Put the terminal in local mode and keep
| hitting the tab key; notice that after column 72 the next tab
| stop is at column 8.
+--------------------

This is a problem? I recall when implementing a line printer driver
at a certain DEC-10 site many moons ago that I had to duplicate this
exact behaviour (i.e., tab from EOL gets col. 9 of next line), 'cause
"that's the way the DEC printer works". Apparently the users depended
on wrapped lines being tabbed in one stop.

(Note that the normal terminolgy is columns 1 & 9, not 0 & 8. So default
tabs are at columns 9, 17, 25, ...)

Rob Warnock

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