grep replacement

[Roy Smith]

jad at insyte.UUCP writes:
> A missing feature in UNIX is the ability to deal with files with very
> long lines.

	Unless I'm misunderstanding jad, he's talking about fixed length
records.  Can't you just do: "dd conv=unblock cbs=80 (or whatever)" to
convert the file to standard Unix \n-terminated lines?  Hasn't this been
part of Unix since at least v6?

	Also, I agree with whoever said that taking context diffs out of
diff is a bad idea.  Context diffs is what makes patch work so well, and
patch is what makes the world go 'round.  Please don't take my context
diffs away-ay-ay.. (with apolgies to Paul Simon).
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Roy Smith, System Administrator
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