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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: awk format pgm
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.022055.10869@convex.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 02:20:55 GMT
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You have an awk that doesn't understand functions.  Get one that does, 
or run it through a2p so you can run perl on it.  Or get the BSD version
in C off of uunet.  

--tom