Re: [gawk-stable] bug: fatal error when getline from directory

[Paolo]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:08:19AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > please define 'human-readable'.
> 
> Consisting of words in some human language.

that's a rather limited 'text file'; then awk couldn't process eg b64-encoded
email msgs, which are pretty (human-)readable, albeit not readly 
understandable by most humans.

> Being able to read such a file does not mean that processing it with
> Gawk will give you anything sensible.

I'm not claiming that; an extension could be devised to let it do something
useful.
The point is that aborting the script on getline is, welI, pointless.


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