> Is there an easy way to change temporarily the number of 
> spaces to which tabs are expanded on the terminal in 
> NetBSD i386?  What about on other platforms?  

Tab stops on terminaks are defined to be every 8th character.
They always have been - except that nothing M$ gets it right! :-)

See expand(1) for something that will change tabs to spaces with
specified tab positions.

	David

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