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.