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From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: row-major multi-column printouts
Keywords: perl ls pr row-major
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Date: 27 Oct 89 16:14:31 GMT
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In-reply-to: tchrist@convexe.uucp's message of 26 Oct 89 14:16:56 GMT

In article <2425@convex.UUCP> tchrist@convexe.uucp (Tom Christiansen) writes:

   here's one that prints out its input in multi-column format.
   hah, you say, pr already does that!  true, but pr uses a 
   column-major order and this (i call it "words")  does so in 
   a row-major one.  to see what i mean, compare:

In our version of "pr", the -a flag switches from column-major order to
row-major order.

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