getting a field from a line in awk/sed/?

[David N. Blank]

From: tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen):
> How it it our problem?  Cut isn't free, you know!

Actually, I found two free implementations of cut on uunet.uu.net:
   comp.sources.unix/volume8/cut+paste.Z (v08i078)
   bsd-sources/usr.bin/cut

               Peace,
                   dNb