enhancement request for cat

"Jeff Holt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <000601c201d1$94c31240$6401a8c0@jlhlap02>
Can you add -tabstop to cat or make it read an environment variable?
I've always used tabstop=4 in vi. There might be others who don't use vi
tabstop=8.
 
Thanks!
 
Jeff Holt
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
http://www.hotsos.com
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