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From: ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <698@fxgrp.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 21:14:58 GMT
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Reply-To: ljz%fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman)
Organization: Master Byte Software, Los Gatos, California
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In article <7962@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP writes:
  
  	The following is a summary of the somewhat plausible ideas
  suggested for the new grep.  ...

  ...

  2) matching multi-line patterns (\n as part of pattern)
  	this actually requires a lot of infrastructure support and thought.
  	i prefer to leave that to other more powerful programs such as sam.
                                                                       ^^^
  ...

Since I'm one of the people who suggested the ability to match multi-line
patterns, I'm a bit disappointed about this ... but such is life.  So
where can I find 'sam'?  Is it in the public domain?  Is source code
available?

You can try to reply via email ... it might actually work, but don't
be surprised if your mail bounces, in which case I'd appreciate
replies here.

Thanks in advance.

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