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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: matrix invert routine
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Date: 11 Nov 89 14:20:31 GMT
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In article <1612@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, rkc@XN (rkc) writes:
| I have "spreadsheet-like" data that looks like this:
| 	a1 b1 c1
| 	a2 b2 c2
| 	a3 b3 c3
| and I want to get it in a form like:
| 	a1 a2 a3
| 	b1 b2 b3
| 	c1 c2 c3
| Before I re-invent the wheel, does anyone have anything that will do this?  Is
| there perhaps a unix tool that does this sort of thing?

The `rs' utility distributed with 4.2 BSD UNIX does exactly this
sort of thing.  Pipe your data through `rs -t' and it will come
out transposed.  It was in /usr/src/new on the distribution tape.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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