A question on awk and sort.

[Lars P. Fischer]

In article <1990May28.225953.222 at murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> aj3u at ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (Asim Jalis) writes:
>I need to use awk and sort on files with records that are longer than
>the maximum length the two utilities allow.  

Get gawk, the GNU AWK. Available at a ftp site near you :-). No silly
restrictions. 

/Lars
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