henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (04/23/85)
Awk(1) and spawk(1) have been modified to make it possible to have an effectively-unlimited number of append-mode files `open' simultaneously. Awk will now re-use append-mode file descriptors if it runs out of descriptors. There is an obvious performance penalty here, especially since no attempt is made to be intelligent in choosing which descriptor to re-use. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry