edit first line of long file

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <27144 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>At least one POSIX draft has attempted to mandate that stdio should
>`reset' the input seek pointer so that (head -1; cat)<foo would produce
>an exact copy of file foo.

Sounds to me like it's time to disband the POSIX working groups,
if they can't think any better than that.