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Subject: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?
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	in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a
	jump in time, or topic, or mood, or <<whatever>>.  i have lost these vertical spacing
	in all but my original draft.  can i use grep somehow to find these extra newlines?

	if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?!

	tia,

	gary



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