Greg A. Woods writes:

> [ On , October 6, 2002 at 14:03:50 (+0200), Johan Danielsson wrote: ]
> 
> > woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> > 
> > > secondly only a single space is allowed between fields in
> > > '-P' output.
> > 
> > How do you deduce that?
> 
> Read the printf format specification string given in the
> standard, as I quoted from it in my post.

Your statement is interesting insofar as you've ignored a paragraph
which Johan quoted from your original message citing the standard,
which said:

>  The implementation may adjust the spacing of the header line and
>  the individual data lines so that the information is presented in
>  orderly columns.



- Klaus