From riacs!eos!ames!mailrus!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz Fri Nov 18 07:56:58 PST 1988

Submitted-by: Gary Oberbrunner <masscomp!garyo>
Posting-number: Volume 16, Issue 87
Archive-name: colm

I got sick of the fact that ls(1) will sort its columns down when given
no arguments, but not in any other case.  And I figured the world needed
a decent columnation tool.  So here is one I just whipped up; it does
fixed and variable width columns, selectable gutter widths, it automatically
figures out how many columns to use (unlike pr -#), and it allows various
formatting options such as selectable leader character, selectable tabbing
with selectable tab size, and your choice of leaders or a separation string.
Colm should compile on any machine that has getopt(3C).