[TUHS] A Tale of Two Greps (Andrew Hume)

[Alan Coopersmith via TUHS]

On 1/9/26 09:20, andrew--- via TUHS wrote:
> what struck me in rereading the paper was a refererral to large files beng greater than 10MB.
> hahahahahaha

When we were going through all the programs in Solaris to port them to 64-bit
as the first step in our Y2038-readiness, we decided that we could EOL the
bfs command, as we no longer needed a special read only version of ed
for which "Files can be up to 1024K bytes and 32K lines, with up to
512 characters, including new-line, per line (255 for 16-bit machines)."

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E86824_01/html/E54763/bfs-1.html

We seem to have inherited it from SVR4, and I see a copy in the SVR3 source
tree - I'm not sure how far back before that it was created.

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