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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:13:41 +0000
From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [9front] columns
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> 
> this is the tool i use for columns, i think it is from programming 
> perls though i may be wrong.
> 
> www.quintile.net/doorstep/columns

Thanks Steve. I might port this to posix or use the awk code as a guide for writing it in some other language. Got a question though: Did you mean to post it to plan9port-dev?