Re: [bug-gawk] sorting optab by long option name

[arnold]

address@hidden wrote:

> Early versions of Unix awk would print "awk: bailing out near line 1" on
> almost any kind of error, as often as not acompanied by a core dump.
> This option prints that message and core dumps, to recreate the entire
> early experience, in all its heady fullness.
>
> Please let it be; it's been there for 15 years or more.

Actually, more like at least 24 years.  It goes back at least as far as
November 1989; I just checked some of the old release tar balls.

Thanks,

Arnold