Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.UUCP
Wed Apr 27 09:48:42 AEST 1988
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.
(Actually, I prefer to edit long .newsrc lines with Emacs.)
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