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[Fairlight]

Is it just me, or did Fairlight say:
> You'll never BELIEVE what Joe Chasan said here...:
> > 
> > FWIW, if you get the entire file thing out of your heads, and the OP had
> > access to sed and was on a *nix box, it certainly can be done with sed,
> > just by sending the single string he wanted to send via user processing
> > command.
> 
> Sure, and I almost recommended it.  It's resource-intensive though,
> launching two extra processes and using their attendant resources for
> something that can be done inline quite simply.

Blah.  You said USER.  Make that one extra process.  I had SYSTEM in mind
when I wrote that, apparently.  My mistake.

It's still resource-intensive IPC that isn't needed.

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