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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> Does anybody actually use those counts?
> I've never written code that does.

Col and Set_Col I've find useful for source code generation and
anything that needs to be lined up in ... columns.  Line and Page?
Never.

Fraser.