Tab() special behaviour in Console?

[zaadstra]

Hi,

I was programming a print line with the tab() function, and found it to print way too far on the line. While normally Tab() neatly prints next text on the same position in the line(s).
Isolation the code and doing some experimenting shows that Tab() works fine without console, but in the console it seems a constant bunch of spaces. Is this meant to be? I can't find notes on this.

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$CONSOLE:ONLY
_DEST _CONSOLE

zipfile$ = "TestingFile.zip"
datetab = LEN(zipfile$) + 4 ' v1.2
PRINT zipfile$; "<<"
PRINT LEN(zipfile$)
PRINT datetab
' ~~~~~
PRINT "hoi"; TAB(datetab); "test"
PRINT "hoihoihoihoi"; TAB(datetab); "test"

Output, run with and without the two console lines:



For now, I will add some code to resolve this manually.  But is this a bug, or a feature?

Thanks!