which depends on what font a user has set his system/mirc font to...
what im actually trying to do is devide a single list contro into 3 coloumes as follows

data1 data2 data3
data4 data5 data 6

and so on.
without tabs the columes will not line up vertically.
i've concidered using 3 seperate list controls but then scrolling
the 3 controls simultaneously becomes very problemactic.

there should be multiple spaces/tabs between the columes but like mirc this editor has stripped them out.