rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) (10/05/90)
In article <3802@network.ucsd.edu> booker@network.ucsd.edu (Booker bense) writes: >- You probably have an older version of awk than the one documented in the >book " The Awk Programming Language" by A. W. & K. . The one in the book >doesn't come with most unix systems. You have to buy it from ATT. They >also have a nifty tool I wish we could get which takes awk programs and >writes c code. > I have that tool but have never been able to get it to work. It requires, I think, an absolutely perfect C compiler to compile it. In particular, it makes heavy use of the pre-processor and was instrumental in helping me to discover several bugs in mine. Unfortunately, I have an Altos computer and you know what that means! -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us