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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: awkcc (was awk)
Keywords: getline
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.131707.4569@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 5 Oct 90 13:17:07 GMT
References: <8678@mirsa.inria.fr> <3802@network.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <3802@network.ucsd.edu> booker@network.ucsd.edu (Booker bense) writes:
>- You probably have an older version of awk than the one documented in the 
>book " The Awk Programming Language" by A. W. & K. . The one in the book
>doesn't come with most unix systems. You have to buy it from ATT. They
>also have a nifty tool I wish we could get which takes awk programs and 
>writes c code. 
>
I have that tool but have never been able to get it to work.  It
requires, I think, an absolutely perfect C compiler to compile it.  In
particular, it makes heavy use of the pre-processor and was instrumental
in helping me to discover several bugs in mine.  Unfortunately, I have
an Altos computer and you know what that means!
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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