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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using awk with records that have over 100 fields
Keywords: awk
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Date: 5 Jan 91 09:29:20 GMT
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In article <1991Jan02.133911.24428@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM
(Tom Christiansen) writes:

>... and the resistance to new, useful tools in the community is so high
>that some people will insist on shooting themselves in the foot using old,
>limited (and even brain-damaged) software for years in the future.

You may want to remind yourself this when the replacement of perl is out.
We too, don't like limited (and even brain-damaged) software.

oz
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