Does the tabs(1) command work?

[John Temples]

I'd like to have the tabs at the console changed to 4.  Reading about the
tabs(1) command implies I should be able to do this with "tabs -4", but
this doesn't appear to do anything.  Does anyone know if there's a way to
do this?
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