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Subject: trailing newlines
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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:18:21 -0500
From: gatech!skeeve!arnold@harvard.harvard.edu (Arnold D. Robbins)

OK, here's another try, (tested, even!):

	x = '
	string

	with lots

	of


	embedded newlines

	'
	gawk '
	{
		if (! first)
			print save
		else
			first = 1
		save = $0
	}

	END	{	printf ("%s", save) }' <<< $x

Your luck with other awks may vary, particularly when processing
binary data; I have much higher confidence in gawk in that regard.

Arnold