In a message to Jack Stein, Holger Granholm wrote re: Warp 3 install

AR> I was looking for a quick way to add blank spaces for a left
AR> margin.
 
JS>I use GAWK or SED.  
 
JS>GAWK '{print "   "$0}' file.txt >lpt1  

        [clip...]

JS>Look for:
JS>GAWK304D.ZIP   GAWK Documentation (926K)
JS>GAWK304X.ZIP   GAWK Text Processing Language for OS/2, DOS and
JS>WIN32. (435K)
 
HG> Ouch what a space filler on the HD.

Yes, if all you're going to use gawk for is to add a few spaces 
to each line before you print.  But gawk is much more versatile 
than that, and worth having around for a variety of reasons 
despite the space it occupies.  

Or, you could just get "perl" and do away with both "sed" and 
"gawk..."


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