A question on awk and sort.

[Doug Gwyn]

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.  I have looked at the man
-pages and found nothing.  Is there a command line option through which
-I could alter the maximum record lengths?

I can't help you with "awk", but as of SVR2 "sort" no longer has a record
length limit, so if you have access to that (perhaps as /usr/5bin/sort),
use it.