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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead.  News at 11:00.
Message-ID: <9598@cup.portal.com>
Date: 30 Sep 88 23:07:45 GMT
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>> Manx "z" (at least version 3.4A) has bugs in its garbage collection,
>> for instance, that gives you reproducable crashes.
>
>Yeh, it's a pisser. I was upset to discover they hadn't been fixed in 3.6. If
>they weren't so dependable (1,$s/^M//) I wouldn't use it. But since I can
>reliably keep it from crashing, I can use it just to avoid Emacs.
>
eh?  I've never had Z crash on that command.  (I used to download uuencoded
files from Portal with carriage returns turned on, so I'd end up with 60k
files that had a ^M on every line.  The s// command in Z is heinously slow,
but has worked for me every time.  In fact, the first time I tried it, I 
ended up resetting the machine because I thought it had crashed, and I didn't
want to continue because the machine was horribly slow. )