[hacknews] strings

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (05/03/84)

Installed strings(1), a local rewrite (for cleanliness and simplicity)
of a minor Berkeley utility.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (04/22/85)

Strings(1) has been fixed to cope properly with the possibility that
it might get fed an a.out-like file through a pipe.  It used to assume
that it could always fseek() on its input.  I've also added a -t option
to suppress the requirement that strings be terminated with a newline
or NUL.  I wanted both of these fixes when trying to sort out some
problems with tplus on Saturday.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry