- Initially, <STRONG>tabs</STRONG> used built-in tables rather than the terminal database,
- to support a half-dozen terminal types. It also had built-in logic to
- support the left-margin, as well as a feature for copying the tab set-
- tings from a file.
-
- Later versions of Unix, e.g., SVr4, added support for the terminal
- database, but kept the tables, as a fallback. In an earlier develop-
- ment effort, the tab-stop initialization provided by <STRONG>tset</STRONG> (1982) and
+
+ The PWB/Unix <STRONG>tabs</STRONG> utility, which was included in System III (1980),
+ used built-in tables rather than the terminal database, to support a
+ half-dozen terminal types. It also had built-in logic to support the
+ left-margin, as well as a feature for copying the tab settings from a
+ file.
+
+ Later versions of Unix, e.g., SVr4, added support for the terminal
+ database, but kept the tables, as a fallback. In an earlier develop-
+ ment effort, the tab-stop initialization provided by <STRONG>tset</STRONG> (1982) and