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to: Andy Roberts
from: Jack Stein
date: 1999-10-31 07:36:08
subject: Warp 3 install

Andy Roberts wrote in a message to Holger Granholm:

 HG> Still running DOS programs from 1988 like the previously mentioned
 HG> BOTH.

 AR> LOL.. strange you should mention BOTH.  

 AR> I very recently opened that up again, having used it many years 
 AR> ago.  

Hey, I used to run that too.  Very nice print utility.

 AR> I was looking for a quick way to add blank spaces for a left
 AR> margin.

I use GAWK or SED.  

GAWK '{print "   "$0}' file.txt >lpt1  

AWK is one of the greatest text processing utes made.  That line tells GAWK to
print some spaces "   ", then then each line ($0) in file.txt, and send it to
the printer.  $0 is the whole line, $1...$NF is the first space seperated word 
in the line through $NF, with $NF being the Number of Fields in each line, or, 
the last field in a line.  You can do damn near anything with a text file with 
AWK.    Thats about as easy as it gets.  

Look for:
GAWK304D.ZIP   GAWK Documentation (926K)
GAWK304X.ZIP   GAWK Text Processing Language for OS/2, DOS and WIN32. (435K)

I use an earlier version than the above, but I figure this one works.  You
need EMX installed to run it in OS/2.  GREP, SED and AWK are the three most
useful UNIX utilities made, you can do tons of neat stuff with them.

                                                  Jack 
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