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                      2: .TH LAM 1 "The University of Arizona \- 6/28/83"
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: lam \- laminate files
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: \f3lam\fR  file [ file | \- string ] ...
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I Lam
                      9: laminates the named files onto the standard output.
                     10: The resulting output is the line-by-line concatenation
                     11: of corresponding lines from each file named.
                     12: If the files are different lengths,
                     13: empty lines are substituted for missing lines in the shorter files.
                     14: .PP
                     15: Each
                     16: .I string
                     17: argument is placed in the output line
                     18: at the point that it appears in the argument list.
                     19: For example, lines from \fIfile1\fR and \fIfile2\fR can be laminated
                     20: with a colon between each line from \fIfile1\fR and the corresponding
                     21: line from \fIfile2\fR by the command
                     22: .DS
                     23: lam file1 \-: file2
                     24: .DE
                     25: .PP
                     26: Filenames and strings may appear in any order in the argument list.
                     27: If
                     28: `\-',
                     29: is given for a filename
                     30: the standard input is read at that point.
                     31: If a file is named more than once,
                     32: each of its lines will be duplicated on the output line,
                     33: except that if standard input is named more than once,
                     34: its lines will be read alternately.
                     35: For example, each pair of lines from standard input can be
                     36: joined onto one line with a space between them by the command
                     37: .DS
                     38: lam \- "\-\0" \-
                     39: .DE
                     40: .LP
                     41: while the command
                     42: .DS
                     43: lam file1 "\-\0" file1
                     44: .DE
                     45: .LP
                     46: replicates each line from \fIfile1\fR.
                     47: .SH SEE ALSO
                     48: delam(1), delamc(1)
                     49: .LP
                     50: .St
                     51: .SH AUTHOR
                     52: Thomas R. Hicks

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