/[NO]EXPAND_TABS Convert ASCII tab characters into spaces. Tab stops are considered to be positioned at every 8th column: 9, 17, 25, ... By default, tabs are expanded if extraction by columns (/COLUMNS=xxx) or translation into EBCDIC (/TRANSLATE=ASCII_TO_EBCDIC) is requested or lines are being numbered (/NUMBERS), and left as tabs otherwise. Tab expansion is never performed if translation from EBCDIC into ASCII (/TRANSLATE=EBCDIC_TO_ASCII) is requested.