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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <8168@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 88 14:24:54 GMT
References: <144@insyte.UUCP> <3350@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <3350@phri.UUCP> by roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith):
+---------------
| 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?
+---------------

Apparently not:  neither System III nor System V r3.1 supports it.  (I used
"strings" on both systems, to make sure it wasn't merely undocumented).  I
certainly think it *should* be in "dd"... it's a rather obvious tape-
conversion operation.
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery			  | "Given its constituency, the only
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