Re: Removing duplicates within text files?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 00:00

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Paul Womar <{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I have found that when I get the list of New group from the news server
> that many appear for several sessions and so are added to my newsgroups
> list many times over thus making it quite a bit longer than it should
> be, is there any program that will easily strip out the duplicates, it's
> a normal text file, alphabetically sorted with one entry per, any ideas?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of an *easy* solution.  You could
do the job with A.N.Other programming language; Applescript and the
Scriptable Text Editor; tcl within the Alpha text editor; or Mac Perl
spring to mind as obvious possibilities.

Rowland.

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