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From: david@cs.dal.ca
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Subject: Re: Bug? in gawk-2.10
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Date: 13 Apr 89 18:30:44 GMT
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In your message of 13 Apr 89 15:49:17 GMT you write:

> I got gawk-2.10 yesterday and ran my awk script that had been made for
> berkeley awk.  I found gawk-2.10 had a problem.
> 
> The awk script has the following statements;
> 
>     "basename " file | getline msg
>     close("basename " file)

The code associated with that construct is a bit dirty at present.
I'll try to get a fix into a bug-fix release before too long.