DOS, UNIX and tabs

[Ben]

I've found the unexpand command, which seems to do the trick. However,
it outputs to standard output, and I haven't worked out yet how to
capture that output to a file...

Ben

Ben wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a python script on a unix system that runs fine. I have a python
> script on a windows system that runs fine. Both use tabs to indent
> sections of the code. I now want to run them on the same system,
> actually in the same script by combining bits and pieces. But whatever
> I try my windows tabs get converted to spaces when I transfer it to the
> unix system and the interpreter complains that the indentation style is
> not consistent throughout the file. Short of going through 350 lines of
> code and manually replacing spaces with tabs what an I do? I'm thinking
> there surely must be a simple solution I have missed here!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben