expand -- Expand tabs (EXTERNAL) [v1.1] Written by Jeff Ding syntax: expand [-c] [-t] [-s""] ex: expand file.w.tabs expand merlin.s -c160 -s"14,20,35" > file.no.tabs ; expand file 'Expand' expands up to 16 definable tab stops per line in the given pathname. Line lengths of up to 255 characters are supported. Longer lines are split into multiple lines. Use output redirection on the command line to save output in a file (last example). The second example works great for viewing Merlin source files. Options are as follows: -c: character for tab. Enter the ascii value of the character to use for the tab expansion. The default character is value 9 for ctrl-I. The tab character is hi-bit sensitive. -t: tab spaces. This is the number of spaces between two consecutive tab stops, normally 8. Can be any number from 1 to 255. -s: tab stops. Up to 16 tab stops can be defined manually. Each stop must be greater than the previous with no value exceeding 255. If less than 16 stops are defined, the remaining stops are constructed from the defined tab spaces.