> THANKS, this was really great! I had no idea 'awk' could do this, on my
> system! I'd better look into that. Anyone has any pointers to info that
> would help me start using awk, on the 3k?

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/cco/texinfo/gawk/gawk_toc.html has a good reference
for awk.  The only thing unique about awk in MPE is that if you run it from
the CI instead of the shell, you have to enclose the command-line parameters
in quotes, for example:

  /bin/awk "-f /hfs/style/filename"

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