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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.
Message-ID: <11237@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 88 23:48:42 GMT
References: <3931@killer.UUCP> <2083@quacky.mips.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2083@quacky.mips.COM> dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>Why write a C program when a standard Unix utility can do the trick?
>
>sed [amazing sed command deleted]

Because sed has a limit of BUFSIZ (or LBSIZE, but I suspect that is
for the hold buffer) length lines.

(Actually, I prefer to edit long .newsrc lines with Emacs.)
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