Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.

John Chambers jc at minya.UUCP
Sat May 7 13:17:15 AEST 1988


In article <11237 at mimsy.UUCP>, chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> In article <2083 at quacky.mips.COM> dce at 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.
> 
And also because the C is easier to type, and takes fewer debug
runs to get right. (;-)

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