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Re: double spacing a file w/ SED

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From: Earl H. Kinmonth
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 15:16
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In article <1102@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Greg Ubben) writes:
>SED can do more than most people think.  They turn to the more cumbersome

Unfortunately the documentation manages to hide most of the capabilities
or forces you to discover the full range of capabilities by very time
consuming experiments.  Then, when you've figured out how to make it work
on a subset of your problem, you discover it has some undocumented internal
limit that prevents your script from working with real world data.
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