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From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
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Subject: Re: Cnews - A small assist for managing complex sys files
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Uh, *what* "line length" limits?  There are, by intent, none of any kind
>in C News.  We've got no shortage of customers using truly ridiculous line
>lengths for very selective feeds.

I understood long sys file lines to be a problem for some of the
awk scripts on systems with awks that limit line lengths.  I realise
that this is not a *bug* in Cnews, but it is still a *problem* with
Cnews that splitting into multiple sys file entries works around,
and that use of continuation lines does not.  If I have misunderstood
the situation I am open to correction ...

Having said that, I'm not sure that I like the original posters
suggestion of the "sort -u".  News arrives out of order often enough
already without making it worse...  Perhaps a program that reads
the togo file stating files and remembering what inodes it had already
seen would do the job.

Duncan