Re: portability as a goal for debian?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* "John H. Robinson, IV" 

| yes, i know it is possible to do higher math in sed (i have a sed script
| to compute primes. however it is very slow. but it /can/ be done), but
| somehow i think that opening tcp sockets is a bit beyond sed/awk.

..going wildly off-topic, but anyhow..

combine awk/sed with netcat and you can do it - netcat has an
installed-size of 228, btw.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.