Setting shell tab stop

Hi All,

Is there a way to set the shell tab stop (tab width?) Solaris (shell is KSH, if it matters) for terminal output from utilities like echo, cat, diff, grep, etc?

I.e. I would like to use tab width 4 instead of 8, and if I do:

echo "123<tab>4"

I'd like to see (using dots instead of space, for clarity):

123.4

instead of

123.....4

Which is the case with default tab width of 8.

Any info / suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
-Pavel

i think its a terminal preference not a shell pref

How would I set terminal preferences (pardon the dumb question, never had to do that)?

I'm using SecureCRT.

Never had to worry about that - termcap files or the stty command perhaps?