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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: C News "staleness" vs. Ultrix
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.174607.1400@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 17:46:07 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

I've just added the following to notebook/problems; this preprint may be
of help to people saddled with Ultrix...

  .SH
  staleness vs. Ultrix
  .PP
  Several Ultrix users have reported a problem with the ``staleness''
  command.
  It seems Ultrix's sed is an antique and blows up on the complex
  regular expression in staleness.
  A fix, at some small cost in performance, is to change the last four lines
  of staleness to something like
  .DS
  exec awk '$1 == "/expired/" { print "-o", $3 }' $NEWSCTL/explist
  .DE
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