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From: raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja)
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Subject: Re: Questions on using pr and cat...
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Date: 10 Jan 91 01:08:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan9.211742.16190@menudo>, (Paul Stephen Sears) writes:

< I have some questions about pr and cat.  I want to combine a number of
< small text files into a single file.  Many of these files are less than
< one page long.  They are not also very nicely formatted.  I thought of
< using cat, but the files run together and I wanted a way to identify
< each new file.  So I considered using pr since it puts on headers and
< footers... Now, what I want to be able to do in pr is to KEEP the
< headers and to remove the footers since, only one file will be put on a


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Narayan Sriranga Raja.