Tab 1.0
by Ronald Terry Constant
98-06-05


INTRODUCTION

  Tab is basically a program to detab and entab files. It will also trim white
  space from lines. Further it will remove all blank lines from a file or
  leave a file with no more than one blank line together. That is, if a file
  has areas with two or more blank lines, you can condense them to one.


USAGE

  The following is the help screen that you see when you type Tab /? at the
  command line.


USAGE: Tab [/?] [/D|/E] [/A|/B] [/1-9] [/T|/L|/R|/N|/O] FileSpec ...
/?       Help. Display this help screen.
/D       Detab. Convert tabs to spaces.                DEFAULT
/E       Entab. Convert spaces to tabs.
/A       All. Convert all spaces/tabs.                 DEFAULT
/B       Begin. Convert only beginning spaces/tabs.
/1-9     Tab size to use. 1 through 9 spaces.          DEFAULT 2
/T       Trim. Trim leading/trailing spaces/tabs from all lines.
/L       LeftTrim. Trim leading spaces/tabs from all lines.
/R       RightTrim. Trim trailing tabs from all lines.
/N       NoBlankLines. Clears all lines with only white space.
/O       OneBlankLine. No more than one consecutive blank line.
FileSpec File name/specifications. Can be more than one.
         Use double quotes, "File Spec", if there is a space in the file spec.
Tab 1.0 Copyright 1998 by Ronald Terry Constant
 Options are not case sensitive. The options, /D|/E and /A|/B and /1-9,
 all work together. The options, /T|/L|/R|/N|/O, are all independent
 of the options about tabs. Entab with All is not yet implemented.


If you want to report bugs or make comments:

Ronald Terry Constant
http://www.flash.net/~constant
constant@flash.net
