/usr/bin/perl -pe 's/lrw......./\n/g;'
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Somehow I doubt that. If awk only worked on files of less than 200 records, that would severely limit its utility. Perhaps your particular version of awk is crippled?

i think awk is limited to the records in one line, but can process as many lines as you whant.

For interest sake, from the options section of the gawk manpage:

 -mf NNN
 -mr NNN
        Set various memory limits to the value NNN.  The  f
        flag  sets  the maximum number of fields, and the r
        flag sets the maximum record size.  These two flags
        and  the  -m option are from the Bell Labs research
        version of UNIX awk.  They  are  ignored  by  gawk,
        since gawk has no pre-defined limits.
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[~]$ echo '{gsub(/lrw......./,"\n"); print}' | a2p
#!/opt/perl/bin/perl
eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if $running_under_some_shell;
                        # this emulates #! processing on NIH machines.
                        # (remove #! line above if indigestible)

eval '$'.$1.'$2;' while $ARGV[0] =~ /^([A-Za-z_0-9]+=)(.*)/ && shift;
                        # process any FOO=bar switches

$, = ' ';               # set output field separator
$\ = "\n";              # set output record separator

while (<>) {
    chomp;      # strip record separator
    s/lrw......./\n/g;
    print $_;
}
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Basicly it takes an awk script, and turns it into a Perl script. It doesn't do as good of a job as a human programmer would, but gives you a good starting point to go from.

You can get more info about it from the a2p man page.

open (INPUT, "<$flatfile");
while(<INPUT>) {
   $_ =~ /[dlrwxsS-]{10}\s/\n/g;
   print;
}
close INPUT;
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