Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Too much Text for sed? Message-ID: <26D553F2.C6C@tct.uucp> Date: 24 Aug 90 16:21:05 GMT References: <8314@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 11 According to morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale): >When I apply the sed commands to the source, I get a: >Too much text: [some sed command] I would suggest using Perl, which is a much more general tool than sed, and which is free of arbitrary command-size restrictions. Perl even comes with "s2p", an automatic sed-to-Perl translator. Written in Perl, of course. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT ,