From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: *grep
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.739
Posted: Wed Mar 23 12:12:49 1983
Received: Thu Mar 24 21:55:46 1983
References: populi.534

Ah, but fgrep will handle MUCH larger patterns than egrep will.  I've
had egrep say 'pattern too large' (or whatever the message is) too many
times to advocate getting rid of fgrep.  What needs to change is the
documentation!

=Spencer