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From: drew@cgou11.enet.dec.com (Steve Drew)
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Subject: Re: scan and format files
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Date: 19 Apr 91 20:58:26 GMT
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In article <280E317E.17300@ics.uci.edu>, jromine@yoyodyne.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) writes:

>I think you can right justify a field by using a negative
>width argument.  E.g.,
>
>	%-10{from}
>

    Nope, still gives first ten characters, and not the last 10.

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