From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!trt Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: csv versus csav Article-I.D.: mcnc.1391 Posted: Sun Nov 28 23:47:40 1982 Received: Mon Nov 29 02:47:00 1982 References: sri-unix.4398 A minor point (drat, I should have read all the followups), but tst -(sp) is not as fast as sub #2,sp Strange, but true. Perhaps the csav timings used the "sub" version and then someone "improved" it to use "tst"? Tom Truscott