Minor incompatibility between Cnews and A/UX (possible Cnews bug)

[Alexis Rosen]

paul at taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
>alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>>Also, quite interestingly, I've discovered that egrep seems to be _much_
>>slower than grep at doing this.
>
>this is why there are 3 greps fgrep is faster than grep is faster than egrep,
>they all use different pattern matching algorithms ..... 

According to my beat-up copy of Kernighan and Pike, egrep is faster than
grep. Why else would Henry & Geoff have used it?

BTW, how good is Gnu's grep, compared to the standard SVR2.2?

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