Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!minya!jc From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper. Message-ID: <583@minya.UUCP> Date: 7 May 88 03:17:15 GMT References: <3931@killer.UUCP> <2083@quacky.mips.COM> <11237@mimsy.UUCP> Organization: home Lines: 17 In article <11237@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: > In article <2083@quacky.mips.COM> dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) writes: > >Why write a C program when a standard Unix utility can do the trick? > > > >sed [amazing sed command deleted] > > Because sed has a limit of BUFSIZ (or LBSIZE, but I suspect that is > for the hold buffer) length lines. > And also because the C is easier to type, and takes fewer debug runs to get right. (;-) -- John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393) You can't make a turtle come out. -- Malvina Reynolds