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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 15:10:23 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian>
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To: hackers
Subject: patch from newsgroup applicable..
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*** cut.c.orig  Mon Mar 20 14:33:26 1995
--- cut.c       Mon Mar 20 14:34:03 1995
***************
*** 218,224 ****
        int output;
        char lbuf[_POSIX2_LINE_MAX + 1];
  
!       for (sep = dchar, output = 0; fgets(lbuf, sizeof(lbuf), fp);) {
                for (isdelim = 0, p = lbuf;; ++p) {
                        if (!(ch = *p))
                                err("%s: line too long.\n", fname);
--- 218,225 ----
        int output;
        char lbuf[_POSIX2_LINE_MAX + 1];
  
!       for (sep = dchar; fgets(lbuf, sizeof(lbuf), fp);) {
!               output = 0;
                for (isdelim = 0, p = lbuf;; ++p) {
                        if (!(ch = *p))
                                err("%s: line too long.\n", fname);



test case:
erf# cut -f2 -d: <<DONE
1:one:x
2:two:xx
3:three:xxx
4:four:xxxx
DONE
one
:two
:three
:four

which is wrong.......

julian E