Pynchon archive temporarily incoherent

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Daniel Bump wrote:

>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?

Out of curiosity, what does a single sentence in this exchange mean?  It's language 
like this (techno-efficient and all, as I am sure it is) that keeps Luddites like me 
contentedly wallowing, piglike, obscurely, in our ignorance as the future passes us 
by.  
This post is no dig or flicker at the above correspondents; it's just me realizing 
(happily--really, no one need translate for me)  I have absolutely no idea what they 
are talking about.

lowtechly,
john m