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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:47:35 +0100
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> From:Paolo <address@hidden>
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> 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'

You asked for a definition, and I gave you one.  Since you seem to
disagree with Posix, I thought something less complex will do;
evidently, it doesn't.

> then awk couldn't process eg b64-encoded
> email msgs

Not true: you are confusing text with its encoding.

> > 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.

I/O is core Gawk functionality; you cannot extend it around the design
limitations of that.

> The point is that aborting the script on getline is, welI, pointless.

As is arguing with you, since you evidently disagree with anything and
anyone but yourself.