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From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 09:33

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I had following problem: I use karl@sugar.hackercorp.com's cookie program (to
insert quotes to some mail and so on) and have collect quotes from several
places. Problem is, they have collected the quotes also from several places,
and thus there are same quotes several times. I decided to clean the cookie
file, but had a problem: how to remove duplicates ?

I finally sorted the file by sort-paragraphs, after setting end of paragraph
as '%%' (which cookie uses as end of cookie mark) and removed the duplicates
by hand. My question is: is there and better way ?
--
Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland

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Subject: Sorting paragraphs
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