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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George Jefferson )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Unix to Mac data transfer
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Date: 16 Apr 91 18:30:31 GMT
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:>I need to transfer number of data sets from Unix camputer (i.e. several columns
:>of data in f5.1 Fortran format)
:>i.e
:> 
:>271.2  278.3   271.1

:Another approach is simply to list is to the terminal screen and use the
:Copy Table feature built into many terminal emulators.  If you need 
yuk.  :-)
well, maybe if you have only a small amount of data.

another approach is to give in and use a unix command. ( I know, yuk too)

sed 's/  */\	/g' fort.1 > fort.tabbed
      ^^     ^one tab
      ^two spaces

on my Sun4, this is quicker than you can say "mcsink"  :-)

BTW you could also replace the "\tab" with a "," or whatever else
your importing application is happy with
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-george            george@mech.seas.upenn.edu