From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: awk(1) output line limit upped 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2480
Posted: Mon Sep 20 19:27:00 1982
Received: Mon Sep 20 19:27:00 1982

Increased the limit on the size of an awk(1) output line from 512 to
1024.   Awk can take long input lines just fine.