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From: dfm@JASPER.Palladian.COM (Don Morrison)
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Subject: to cut & paste a column
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 11:53:00 EST
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    Date: 20 Nov 87 10:18:38 GMT
    From: oliveb!pyramid!prls!philabs!sbcs!bnl!allard@ames.arpa  (Rick Allard)

    Has anybody found the need and the solution
    to cutting a column out of a multicolumn
    area of characters, a table?

Will the DM command "xd -r" do what you want?  Xc and XP also take -r for
dealing with rectangular areas.