On Thursday 30 January 2003 2:32 am, John R. Wolff wrote:
> I am finding a very strange result with the HELP command when it is
> redirected to a file.  Can anyone explain and is there a way to correct it?
>
[...]
> Note that the 3 leading spaces on the 2nd. line are converted to an extra
> blank line and then the rest of line 2 is left justified.

just a shot in the dark here, but is there a possibility that the command file
in question contains a TAB character at the start of the line?  or perhaps
the "redirection" routine converted the leading spaces to a "tab" character
[which, if you don't actually SET tabstops on a typical terminal/termulator,
will cause a blank line/start at column 1 effect]

Try either turning on "display functions" or explicitly setting a tab stop at,
say, column 10 and seeing if the output changes [or better still, do an FCOPY
;CHAR;HEX against the file created via redirection and look for 09's]

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