egrep won't pick fields

[Andrew Klossner]

> grep '^........foo' 
> picks up any line which has `foo' in columns 9-11..

True for grep, but egrep will say "Regular expression too long" if
there are six or more periods.  I hope this problem goes away with gre.

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