A good checkbook acct. program (really awk)

Curtis Jackson rcj at burl.UUCP
Sun Feb 9 01:53:10 AEST 1986


In article <310 at isis.UUCP> aburt at isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:
>a bit later...  What I found was that 'awk' on this system, a Pyramid 90x with
>OSx 2.5, and on a pure 4.2 system also, were using floats for all the real
>values, rather than doubles.  With balances like $12345.67 we were hitting the

awk on SVR2 uses doubles -- from /usr/src/cmd/awk/awk.def:

typedef double awkfloat;

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