eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) (02/06/89)
Well, the subject sums it up pretty well. The problem is that awk complains of an out of symbol space error when trying to generate the netnews traffic summaries. All help/pointers are appreicated. Thanks Eric. -- Eric Schnoebelen egsner!eric@texbell.uucp ...!texbell!egsner!eric egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us ...!killer!u-word!egs "All this science, I can't understand; It's just my job 5 days a week"
karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (02/06/89)
In article <196@egsner.UUCP> eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen) writes: > > Well, the subject sums it up pretty well. > The problem is that awk complains of an out of symbol space >error when trying to generate the netnews traffic summaries. There's yet another problem. Awk, as distributed by Microport, won't handle even a 5-6K awk script! It complains about a "regular expression too large" and exits. This makes several things not work, including smail 3's configuration scripts. My attempt to work around this putting together a minimal replacement for awk failed due to yet ANOTHER problem in 2.3/2.4 -- the kernel PANICs if you try to do any floating point operations without a coprocessor! Not nice! -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, ddsw1!karl) Data: [+1 312 566-8912], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality solutions at a fair price"