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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: a sed question
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:48:56 +0100
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On 21.12.2024 19:21, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
> [...] I'm here on the USENET because I
> discovered it in non-standard media.  It turns out I find NNTP a much
> better medium of discourse than any other.  (I'm writing this from a GNU
> EMACS buffer and will be send out using Gnus.  Gnus can be dramatically
> uninuitive, but there seems to be no real replacement for it when it
> comes to USENET and perhaps mail.)  [...]

There's tools like Thunderbird where you can work with Usenet similarly
to using a typical GUI-based email client (it is actually also an email
client). If you like historic tools I've heard that there's still 'nn'
around, a text-oriented newsreader that I used in the 1990's (loved it).

> 
> I actually know awk a little bit.  I've read the ``AWK Programming
> Language'' by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, 1988.  I loved it.  [...]

This is an excellent source! So you might want to look into the GNU Awk
Manual just for a contemporary Awk variant, to see a couple more useful
features supported in an efficient Awk implementation.

Janis