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- From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
- Subject: Re: termcap update via perl oddity
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.222053.16818@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Organization: Bradley University
- References: <1992Sep8.211620.13578@bradley.bradley.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 22:20:53 GMT
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- In <1992Sep8.211620.13578@bradley.bradley.edu> pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes:
- >After running the script, unknown to me until a user complained about
- >a missing termcap, everything from and including the extremely long line
- >was truncated. Is there something stupid in my script that causes
- >it to choke on this? I thought it was pretty simple to just read it
- >in as the file existed, replace the top of it, and write it back out
- >again, without line length limits.
-
- I suppose, from my only response so far, I was not clear. The ENTIRE
- FILE (not just the long line) was truncated at this point (which would
- still be a problem, but a more understandable and work-aroundable one).
- --
- Pete Hartman Bradley University pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
- People say that I'm out of touch with reality. That I'm insane.
- Sometimes I forget things. Who I am. Where I am. Unimportant things.
- But I'm not insane. I am a tick.
-