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From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: Re:  is there any clever way to do 'read' in rc scripts?

At least under SunOs and Ultrix there is a programm called "line"
which does the job. You'll like to read the man page.

	fn read {
		$1=`{ line }
	}

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