Do use TAB3
Andrew Klossner
andrew at frip.gwd.tek.com
Wed Nov 16 11:08:44 AEST 1988
Re gettydefs:
"dont use TAB3, it means "expand tabs to spaces"; normally that
would be wrong (VERY wrong sometimes) for uucp-traffic."
I disagree. On a conventional dialup, you do want TAB3, for the case
where the user has a musty old terminal without hardwired tabs, and
there are tabs in /etc/motd. UUCP had better be doing its own ioctls
to condition the line the way it wants.
(I'm typing this on an hp2621a, connected via a modem. The terminal
powers up with no tab stops; they are programmed by my .cshrc, which
doesn't execute until after login prints /etc/motd.)
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!hammer!frip!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com at relay.cs.net) [ARPA]
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