Xref: utzoo comp.unix.aux:5006 news.software.b:8429 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!hela!wotan.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,news.software.b Subject: Re: Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 17:04:08 GMT References: <1991Jun23.132007.10674@panix.uucp> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: wotan.iti.org alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes: >Also, quite interestingly, I've discovered that egrep seems to be _much_ >slower than grep at doing this. res@colnet.uucp (Rob Stampfli) first mentioned >that this was true on a Unix-PC, and it's true on Macs as well. Perhaps it's >System V-dependant? Or is this just a special case where egrep is unusually >slow? It's something horrible in some versions of sysV egrep. On a UNIX-PC some C-News scripts simply will not run due to grep/egrep problem. I strongly recommend getting GNU grep/egrep and replacing the 3b1 grep with them. If AUX has the same problem, a similar fix applies. -- "If we don't provide support to our users someone is bound to confuse us with Microsoft." -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki