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From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>
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"Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:
> At 7:45 PM -0400 4/20/04, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >
> >DYNAMIC FIELD SIZES:
> >
> >There are different choices here. Some can hurt you.
> >
> >It is good to produce some output before all the
> >process data has been read.
> 
> Note that `ps' already sorts all data before printing
> out anything.  If it has gotten far enough to sort all
> the data, it can probably size it all too.  (I have not
> looked at how Cyrille actually did that, but I assume
> that at least that much of it is probably okay).


I follow you, except that I've shortened the code a lot :)

PS : the PR has been updated w/ some new features...

Cyrille Lefevre.
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