Too much Text for sed?

Chip Salzenberg chip at tct.uucp
Sat Aug 25 02:21:05 AEST 1990


According to morreale at bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale):
>When I apply the sed commands to the source, I get a:
>Too much text:  [some sed command]

I would suggest using Perl, which is a much more general tool than
sed, and which is free of arbitrary command-size restrictions.

Perl even comes with "s2p", an automatic sed-to-Perl translator.
Written in Perl, of course.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>



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