f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward) (09/26/89)
I have a task before me. I need to change a field in an ASCII database file. AWK would be perfect for this, except for one hitch: the records are 320 characters and there is no record separator, i.e. wc shows 0 lines (like, there are no carriage returns, you know?). It seems there must be a Unix utility that will handle this for me. Will sed do it? A combination of sed and awk? All I need to do is examine the second field in each 320 byte record and write it back out with the second field changed. Any suggestions? By the way, I am doing this using MKS toolkit under DOS 3.3 if that makes any difference. Please email your responses to: ------------------------James Everett Ward----------------f0057@uafhp.uark.edu Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.