Sortix volatile manual
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NAME
tabs — set terminal tabsSYNOPSIS
| tabs | [-n|-a|-a2|-c|-c2|-c3|-f|-p|-s|-u] [+m[n]] [-T type] |
| tabs | [-T type] [+[n]] n1[,n2,...] |
DESCRIPTION
The tabs utility displays a series of characters that first clears the hardware terminal tab settings and then initializes the tab stops at the specified positions and optionally adjusts the margin.- -n
- Specifies repetitive tab stops separated by a uniform number of columns, n, where n is a single digit decimal number. The default usage of tabs with no arguments is equivalent to tabs -8. When -0 is used, the tab stops are cleared and no new ones set.
- -a
- Assembler, applicable to some mainframes. Equivalent to tabs 1,10,16,36,72 .
- -a2
- Assembler, applicable to some mainframes. Equivalent to tabs 1,10,16,40,72
- -c
- COBOL, normal format. Equivalent to tabs 1,8,12,16,20,55
- -c2
- COBOL, compact format (columns 1 to 6 omitted). Equivalent to tabs 1,6,10,14,49
- -c3
- COBOL, compact format (columns 1 to 6 omitted), with more tabs than -c2. Equivalent to tabs 1,6,10,14,18,22,26,30,34,38,42,46,50,54,58,62,67
- -f
- FORTRAN. Equivalent to tabs 1,7,11,15,19,23
- -p
- PL/1. Equivalent to tabs 1,5,9,13,17,21,25,29,33,37,41,45,49,53,57,61
- -s
- SNOBOL. Equivalent to tabs 1,10,55
- -T type
- Indicates the type of terminal.
- -u
- Assembler, applicable to some mainframes. Equivalent to tabs 1,12,20,44