Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!genrad!decvax!uafhp!f0057 From: f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: How do I change a big data file with no record separator? Keywords: AWK Message-ID: <5656@decvax.dec.com> Date: 26 Sep 89 14:12:14 GMT Sender: news@decvax.dec.com Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 15 I have a task before me. I need to change a field in an ASCII database file. AWK would be perfect for this, except for one hitch: the records are 320 characters and there is no record separator, i.e. wc shows 0 lines (like, there are no carriage returns, you know?). It seems there must be a Unix utility that will handle this for me. Will sed do it? A combination of sed and awk? All I need to do is examine the second field in each 320 byte record and write it back out with the second field changed. Any suggestions? By the way, I am doing this using MKS toolkit under DOS 3.3 if that makes any difference. Please email your responses to: ------------------------James Everett Ward----------------f0057@uafhp.uark.edu Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.