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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: C News problem
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Date: 8 May 91 08:53:33 GMT
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In article <1991May07.092248.20772@actrix.gen.nz> paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>In article <1991May6.204139.20114@bdt.com> david@bdt.com (David Beckemeyer) writes:
>> I'm getting the following in errlog each day:
>> 	awk: string wesco:world,na,usa,c ... too long to print
>> 	 record number 24
>From /usr/lib/news/sys (assuming standard install).  Simply create
>two entries in your sys file for wesco, each with half the longer line.

Or install and use GNU awk which doesn't have the problem.

Cheers,
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