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+# labels.awk
+# Arnold Robbins, arnold@gnu.ai.mit.edu, Public Domain
+# June 1992
+
+# Program to print labels.  Each label is 5 lines of data
+# that may have blank lines.  The label sheets have 2
+# blank lines at the top and 2 at the bottom.
+
+BEGIN    { RS = "" ; MAXLINES = 100 }
+
+function printpage(    i, j)
+{
+    if (Nlines <= 0)
+        return
+
+    printf "\n\n"        # header
+
+    for (i = 1; i <= Nlines; i += 10) {
+        if (i == 21 || i == 61)
+            print ""
+        for (j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
+            if (i + j > MAXLINES)
+                break
+            printf "   %-41s %s\n", line[i+j], line[i+j+5]
+        }
+        print ""
+    }
+
+    printf "\n\n"        # footer
+
+    for (i in line)
+        line[i] = ""
+}
+
+# main rule
+{
+    if (Count >= 20) {
+        printpage()
+        Count = 0
+        Nlines = 0
+    }
+    n = split($0, a, "\n")
+    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
+        line[++Nlines] = a[i]
+    for (; i <= 5; i++)
+        line[++Nlines] = ""
+    Count++
+}
+
+END    \
+{
+    printpage()
+}