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Creating a column based list from a string list

I have a string containing fields separated by space

Example

Code:
set sr="Fred Ted Joe Peter Paul Jean Chris Tim Tex"

and want to display it in a column format, for example to a maximum
of a window of 100 characters

And hopefully display some thing like

Code:
Fred       Ted       Joe       Peter      Paul      Jean
Chris      Tim       Tex

 
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hylafax-client(1), faxmail(1), faxstat(1), sendfax(1), sgi2fax(1), textfmt(1). December 5, 1994 PAGESIZES(5)