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

[Jon W{tte]

In article <878 at taniwha.UUCP> paul at taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) 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 ..... 

Here we go again:

fgrep is _NOT_ faster than egrep except for small inputs. Fgrep is
mostly a convenience utility, to be able to match dots & stuff with
ease.

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						Jon W{tte
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