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[Apologies to the list; I am unable to reply to "golem!david"]

> exactly the same functionality as the example source, except it
> uses line(1) and doesn't do the assignment if the read fails.

line(1) is not available everywhere.  At least not on the 4.3BSD-utah
systems I use.  Perhaps rephrasing in terms of `sed 1q' would be better.

DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@cs.wisc.edu)