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1.1       root        1: here is the fast 'grep/egrep' package sent to comp.sources and u. c. berkeley.
                      2: included are the prerequisite routines developed by henry spencer of
                      3: univ. of toronto -- these are also part of the comp.sources archive.
                      4: 
                      5: i've already updated spencer's care package to incorporate three fixes
                      6: which have appeared in the same forum.
                      7: 
                      8: the makefiles are configured for bsd 4.3 and sys5 unix.
                      9: they assume that the spencer regexp() is not already in a system library --
                     10: read the makefile comments if this is not the case.
                     11: 
                     12: for stock 4.3 sites, apply the diff 'diff.egrep.y.bsd' to the existing
                     13: source in /usr/src/usr.bin/egrep.y and re-make.  this adds full support
                     14: for the -i option.  the procedure is then:
                     15: 
                     16:        make
                     17:        sh eg.shell     # amusement
                     18:        make install
                     19:        
                     20: ames!jaw

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