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Old 09-04-2007
DarkHound DarkHound is offline
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FYI, I figured it out through use of another resource. The following is what did the trick, just in case anyone else needs to know.

perl -pe 's/^(.{307})\s{20}/$1SEE FREE TEXT /' input.file > output.file