@sun @Rocket Bro...

I remember that some time around 1991 I mentioned this UNIX thing to Prof. M.V. Makarov-Zemlyanski and the conversation somehow ended on the topic of the of the text files with EOL delimiters. Maybe he wanted to re-encode e-mail on the fly, I don't remember precisely.

Either way, I said, "oh by the way, we also have tabs that you have to expand if you do this". And he said, "I suppose I could... where is the tab column table?" And I'm like... uhh... just generate the table at every 8th position please, Professor? He then gave me the meme look (30 years before the meme).