tabs question

[Greg Klein]

The command 'stty tab3' causes tabs on output to be converted to spaces (this
is also the default).  My problem is that this conversion is to 8 spaces per
tab and I would like 4 spaces per tab.  Alternatively, I COULD use 'stty tabs'
so that tabs are not converted to spaces and  'tabs -4' to set the tabstops
on the tty, but this is hardware dependent -- the tty (terminal or printer)
must have remotely-settable hardware tabs.

Is there some way to cause expansion of tabs to 4 spaces instead of 8?  Seems
that there should be a way to tell the tty driver to do this but I can't
figure out how.

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