Re: gawk hanging on Solaris

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings. Re this:

> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:13:05 -0500
> From: "Pollitt, Anthony L" <address@hidden>
> Subject: 
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Please include a subject in future mails. I almost threw this out as spam.

> To: address@hidden
>
> Gawk-3.1.4 hangs on solaris 2.6 and 8. Do you know why?

No. You need to show an example of your program and data. Does something
simple like

        gawk 'BEGIN { print "hello world" }'

work?  If so, then perhaps your awk program isn't doing what you think
it's doing.

How does /usr/xpg4/bin/awk behave on the same awk program?

> Anthony L. Pollitt, Sr
>
> UNIX System Administrator
>
> (856) 359-3107

Arnold