How can one set tabstops to specific values?

I'd like to be able to set tabstops in various files to useful values

like in
/etc/fstab
set ts=17,17,8,24,3

With the last tabstop repeated for the width of the line...

I've seen this in other editors and even the linux-console has
this ability -- so how can I setvim to produce tabstops for a
variably tab'ed output file?

Thanks... I DID look through the vimhelp, but couldn't find
anything related to varying the tabs.





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