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From: jromine@yoyodyne.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: scan and format files
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Date: 18 Apr 91 23:53:34 GMT
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Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
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drew%cgou11.enet@decwrl.dec.com writes:
>I was hoping to be able to create a format file for 'scan'
>that displayed only the last n characters

I think you can right justify a field by using a negative
width argument.  E.g.,

	%-10{from}

You'd have to use one of the match tests to see if the address
is a DECNET-style address, and then use this format in those cases.
--
John Romine