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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Arbitron in PERL
Message-ID: <SPIKE.91May21210753@world.std.com>
Date: 22 May 91 02:07:53 GMT
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Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
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In-Reply-To: rbj@uunet.uu.net's message of Tue, 21 May 1991 19: 09:16 GMT


rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim) writes:
<spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>?	This is a perl version of the arbitron program.  I wrote
<?parbitron because SUNOS 4.0.3's awk kept core dumping on long .newsrc
>?lines (under SUNOS 4.1 in prints 'line too long' and aborts).
<Yes, but what did arbitron do with nawk or gawk?

	SUNOS 4.0.3 does not have nawk, tho as I recall it did work
under 4.1.  gawk worked, occasionally lost a associative array member,
and misscounted.

<What did Brian say?

	He said the output looked good.  That's all that seemed to
matter.

->Spike
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