PROBLEM:  (73949, UVO59438) (PATCH ID: OSF440-378)
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This patch corrects a problem with the fgrep command, when it is used
with the -s flag all output is suppressed.

PROBLEM:  (69855, 69829) (PATCH ID: OSF440-381)
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This patch fixes a limitation problem with the grep and fgrep commands.
If the line length is too long, grep displays a "wordlist too large"
error message and fgrep displays "input too long" error message.

The maximum input line length for both grep and fgrep is increased to
64K with this patch.
PROBLEM: (49626, 50301) (PATCH ID: OSF440-432)
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This patch fixes the following two problems:
fgrep limits are too small

fgrep displays data files verbatim if 
pattern_file has blank lines.


PROBLEM: (EVT43299A, CFS.79281) (PATCH ID: OSF440-526)
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This patch fixes a problem in which the grep
command with the -w switch does not work as documented.


PROBLEM: (89117) (PATCH ID: OSF440-983)
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Grep command was hanging while executing with '-w' and '-f' options, if a 
blank line is present in the pattern file. To resolve this problem, an 
additional check was included in the function check_list() to consider 
the pattern '\n'.