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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: dd(1) acquires "pad" conversion
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 16:15:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 16:15:47 1985
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Added a "pad" conversion to dd(1), the inverse of "trim":  it pads lines
out to convert them to fixed-length records without also doing an EBCDIC
conversion.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry