bgt@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (barbara.tongue) (07/09/89)
Folks, In one of the tools directoryies on my machine, I discovered the executable "gath." Now, from what I've heard, gath is a tool which "gathers" files, allows shell execution if lines are prefaced with ~$, and can be used in combination with troffed files. Here is my question - Let's say that I have dynamic flat-file database, whose fields can be any combination of 17 variables. I want to pipe that into troff and get out a clean table with the headers correctly inserted. With definite input, that is no problem; for example, I've written into my .tbl file what the header names are and in what file the data is located. The problem occurs when I want to switch to using $1 as my file name; the command gath file.tbl file.data defines $1 as null. (I'm calling $1 from file.tbl; I assume that in itself is a problem.) Does anyone know where the source code can be found? I have no man page for this executable; can anyone help? Much, much *much* thanks in advance, -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% The Speaking Tongue, AT&T %% C Code. C Code Run. Run, Code, RUN! %% %% (..!att)!feathers!bgt %% PLEASE!!!! %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%