Question

Hello
I have an application that should work in Windows and Linux.When I open(transfer) the file from one system to other my comments in code are mixed up .

//////////////////////////////////////////////////
//                                              //
//                                              //
//////////////////////////////////////////////////

And then I get something like this

//////////////////////////////////////////////////
//                                      //
//                                          //
//////////////////////////////////////////////////

What could be done?

Answer 1

Pipe the file through expand -8. You have tab characters, which usually move to the next multiple of 8 characters but on some linuxes are set to do 4 characters.

expand -8 < foo.c > foo.c.new ; mv foo.c.new foo.c

should fix it.