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> 
> for X in `cat filename`
> do
> 
> echo "$X"
> 
> done
> 
> The displayed text is as follows
> 
> FIELD1LN1
> FIELD1LINE1
> FIELD1LN2
> FIELD2LINE2
> FIELD1LN3
> FIELD2LINE3
> 
> I am expecting to retain both fields side by side
> in $X.  If I vi the file it looks fine.  If I cat
> the file it looks fine ...

That's not going to work with 'for' in Bourne, or 'foreach' in csh.  They
go by words, not lines.

If you can feed the file to STDIN from the command line, try using 'read'
to grab a whole line at a time, assuming you must (or want to) stick with
Bourne.

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