Documented in Volume 1 of the UNIX Programmers Manual.
% expand -20 filein > fileout will apply tab stops every twenty columns, and replace all tab characters with spaces. The default tab stop is every eight columns.
% expand -10,15,20,50 will expand the text with tabs set to columns 10, 15, 20 and 50.
Printer tab definitions are in /usr/lib/term.
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