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Robert A Duff asked:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:
> 
>>You should also be aware from A.12.2.(7) that "Performing operations on
>>the stream associated with a text file does not affect the column,
>>line, or page counts."
> 
> Does anybody actually use those counts?

Yes.  I might even say that it is seldom that I write a 
program that doesn't use the line count function.  (it is 
not quite true, but it is very useful for reporting which 
line in a file caused an error)
Jacob
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