Anyone have a large model awk for System V/AT 2.4

Karl Denninger karl at ddsw1.MCS.COM
Tue Feb 7 01:21:57 AEST 1989


In article <196 at egsner.UUCP> eric at egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) writes:
>
>	Well, the subject sums it up pretty well.
>	The problem is that awk complains of an out of symbol space
>error when trying to generate the netnews traffic summaries.

There's yet another problem.

Awk, as distributed by Microport, won't handle even a 5-6K awk script!  It
complains about a "regular expression too large" and exits.

This makes several things not work, including smail 3's configuration
scripts.

My attempt to work around this putting together a minimal replacement for
awk failed due to yet ANOTHER problem in 2.3/2.4 -- the kernel PANICs if you 
try to do any floating point operations without a coprocessor!

Not nice!

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