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[Daniel Bump]

Andrew Dinn wrote:

> The new server is a DEC box running Unix and the offending program is
> DEC's implementation of awk which throws up on lines with more than 99
> tokens. Presumably the program only has buffering for up to 100
> arguments. It only requires one poster to use a crappy editor which
> formats with a <LF> at the end of a paragraph rather than at line end
> to pollute an archive folder and it appears that all folders have at
> least one such note. If there is any way of forcing DEC's awk to use a
> larger buffer for its arguments please let me know.

Why not try another awk such as (gnu) gawk? 

Out of curiosity, how many folders are there and how large are the 
folders?

                                 Daniel Bump
                                 http://match.stanford.edu/bump/