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Roodwriter@core.com wrote:
> 
> Assuming you're on Linux or unix, why not try expand on the command line? 
> That converts tabs to spaces. To convert spaces to tabs use unexpand. 
> 

I considered that, but it just outputs the results to stdout, which 
makes it hard to use in batch runs. Or am I missing something?

/David