From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:48:04 +0000
From: Ed Brown <minimano@home.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] awk oddity?
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> 
> The following commands:
>     awk '{print substr($0,1,8)}' bigfile >crud
>         and
>     awk '{print length($0,1,8)}' bigfile >crud
> 
> Seem to lock up awk on Plan9. ...
<snip>

User error.  bigfile was from another OS.  I made an 
assumption that it was *7-bit* ascii, and thus UTF. 
A suggestion to other newbies like myself, run  tcs  on your "text"
files first.