ML>> anyway, something like this might help...

 DS>   Looks interesting, I'll save it to a file and study
 DS> the help on the commands you used to see exactly what
 DS> they are doing, but from a quick glance it looks like
 DS> it might work.

lemme know how it goes... i had the help open in one window while typing it
in another... i used environment variables to hopefully make it easier...
setting the var for the filename should be easily done in a for loop if
there are different filenames to process...

 DS>   Thanks.

no problem... if nothing else, it is a skeleton to start something with ;)

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