ãIm try-ing to write what i thought would be a very simple text file viewer thatãpauses the screen after 24 lines of text. <please dont laph at me>ããAnyhow, im having a problem. It seems that the [TAB] space is throwing my lineãcounter off. The way i have it setup is each time it reads a tab space from theãfile it incraments the counter 8 logical charictor positions, but what i haveãfound is that the tab space is not always 8 chars long even if it is set toãthat length... ããLike at the dos prompt, if you type some text and then hit tab two times, youãwould think that it would display 16 spaces, (8*2), but it doesnt always doãthat?!?.ããIs there some rule that a tab space must change size depending on where itãapears in a string of text??? if so, could somebodey explain it to me? ããplease... :-)ãã-tinman-ãã---ã þ Synchronet þ telnet://talamasca-bbs.com http://talamasca-bbs.comã

RE: Tabs.ãBY: Tinman to All on Thu Apr 06 2000 12:04 amãã > Is there some rule that a tab space must change size depending on where itã > apears in a string of text??? if so, could somebodey explain it to me?ããFirstly, tab-stops are _usually_ but not _always_ set at 8.ããSecondly, a TAB character will move the cursor over to the next tab-stop, _not_ãover by 8 characters. IOW, if your cursor is already on column 5 the TAB willãonly move you over 3. And if your cursor is on column 33, the TAB will moveãyou over 7.ãã---ã þ Synchronet þ telnet://talamasca-bbs.com http://talamasca-bbs.comã