SysV/AT awk problem: Usenet stats script

Paul Homchick paul at cgh.UUCP
Tue Oct 4 12:15:41 AEST 1988


In article <706 at splut.UUCP> jay at splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
>Has anyone out there gotten Erik Fair's Usenet stats awk script to run
>under Microport System V/AT? I'm running 2.3.0, and when I try it, I
>get:
>awk: out of space in tostring on moray
> record number 1

This means that awk has run out of space.  This is not surprising, as
the System V/AT awk is complied as a small model program, and only
has 64K of data.  It evidently was too much trouble to fix the pointer
references, etc in awk to get it complied as a large model program.
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