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Re: printf fix

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Apr 26, 2000
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printf() and sprintf() should and do translate '\t' into 9.
The tab translation works just as it should.  That is all I have
to say.

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> Sender:       Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
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> Poster:       Bernie Ryan <xotron at BUFFNET.NET>
> Subject:      Re: printf fix
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> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:33:21 -0400, Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> wrote:
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> >Note:  To respond to the LB_SETTABSTOPS message, the list box must have
> >been created with the LBS_USETABSTOPS style.
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>   Brian:
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>   That message sets tab stops in a listbox, but requires the user to
>   calculate and adjust the tabs under different conditions. What I am
>   saying is if sprintf formated a string as it should, then a user could
>   use text in the listbox without dealing with adjusting tab stops,
>   because the tabs would have been converted into spaces. In addition
>   sprintf could then be used to format titles and other text strings
>   in windows and dos.
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>   Bernie
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