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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2113674)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: GNU egrep
Keywords: look on prep.ai.mit.edu for GNU stuff
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Date: 18 Jan 90 15:03:32 GMT
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In article <18588@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, ari@eleazar.dartmouth.
Halberstadt) writes:
|>A while back I came across a copy of the Free Software Foundation's
|>version of egrep, which they claimed was several times faster
|>than regular egrep. If anyone could mail me a copy of it or knows
|>of an ftp site I would be very grateful. Of course, if all else
|>fails, I'll just have to write away to FSF (or do they have an
|>email address for taking orders?)

GNU egrep is part of the GNU grep packages, along with grep. As with all
GNU, you can get it from prep.ai.mit.edu and probably gatekeeper.dec.com
for those on the West Coast. Any boy is it fast!

						Ron

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