K 10 svn:author V 6 fenner K 8 svn:date V 27 2001-11-07T17:53:25.000000Z K 7 svn:log V 292 Initialize first to -1; this will create a (nearly) empty file on failure, instead of looping until the disk is full. This kind of failure can especially happen when a version of awk that doesn't support POSIX character classes is used. Submitted by: David Wolfskill END