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Old 07-30-2012
Bourne script problem

You get the prize. That appears to have been the problem. ONE non-quoted variable was all it took to change a double space to a single space. Thank you very much.

By the way, anyone know why when I cut and pasted the output into this kind of window the double space also got changed to a single space? Don't waste much time on it; just curious.
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Old 07-31-2012
Probably because you never post in code tags. There's a reason we insist people do so.
 
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