Berkeley 'head' script

[William L. Sebok]

"head" is used enough here to justify making it a C program.  I really don't
see how one gains any clarity by replacing a perfectly good short C program
with a complicated shell script using sed. I think that the latter is much
harder to understand.
  And also slower if any Unix zealots out there still care about performance.
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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