Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Keywords: Long Lines
Message-ID: <3350@phri.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 14:19:55 GMT
References: <144@insyte.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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jad@insyte.UUCP writes:
> A missing feature in UNIX is the ability to deal with files with very
> long lines.

	Unless I'm misunderstanding jad, he's talking about fixed length
records.  Can't you just do: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80 (or whatever)" to
convert the file to standard Unix \n-terminated lines?  Hasn't this been
part of Unix since at least v6?

	Also, I agree with whoever said that taking context diffs out of
diff is a bad idea.  Context diffs is what makes patch work so well, and
patch is what makes the world go 'round.  Please don't take my context
diffs away-ay-ay.. (with apolgies to Paul Simon).
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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