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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: sort with a tab as separator
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Date: 17 Aug 90 17:52:07 GMT
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I just figured out that it is my shell that actually translates tabs into
spaces.  So, now I need a way to quote a tab (no, quotation marks or
backslash quoting don't work)...

/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu