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     See ◄Introduction to switches►
 
     This switch is especially useful if the format of your files is
     incompatible with this version of the COBOL System.
 
     On output to disk, multiple spaces before a tab stop position are
     written as one tab character. The T switch will not affect any trailing
     spaces as these are not part of the line sequential record, and they
     will be removed on output. Tab positions are every 8 character
     positions (for example, 9, 17, 25 and so on) and cannot be changed.
 
     On input, tab characters are always expanded to spaces to the next
     position, regardless of the setting of the T switch.
 
     When this switch set to off, all spaces in a line sequential file are
     written to disk as space characters.
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