Subject:	GNU awk
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list)
Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 93 13:56:20 EST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>

I've been using GNUish gawk for a while, and I've just run into an
application that requires more space.

     Darrell Hankerson mentioned an OS2/DOS (emx?) port allegedly
available at hobbes.nmsu.edu quite a while back on this list.  I was
able to connect anonymously to hobbes, but did not have read
permissions on any of the directories.  I sort of knew what to look
for, so was able to navigate down to /pub/os2, but got stuck there.
This sounds like a security precaution, so unless someone knows better
I'm going to assume that route is closed.
    Does anyone know of a port that's available?  And where?

    I'm in the process of trying to do the port myself.  It looks like
it should be fairly easy (I'm 90% done, so I should only have to put 3
or 4 times as much time more as I've already put in :-).  The main
hangup is lack of pipe support, but the Robbins/Deifik (GNUish?) port
for MSC 5.1 includes a promising-looking kludge for simple
MS-DOS-style "pipes."
    When successful, I will run the test suite, ask Greg Higgins if I
can make it available on ftp.math.niu,edu, and make an announcement to
this list (djgpp-announce).

    I'm also looking at a number of possiblities for supporting real
pipes under DV/X.  More about that later.  In the meantime, if you
have been working on pipes for your own DV/X applications (I know that
soembody's working on GhostView, for example), or know of anyone who
has done this, we ought to get together to try and make this more or
less standard.  (Since we can't get at MS-DOS, and QOS doesn't provide
a pipe() facility in the RoadMap, I would guess these are going to be
pretty kludge-specific.)  I'm also going to contact QOS tech support.
If you're interested, please reply to *me*, not the list.
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Stephen Turnbull
The Ohio State University, Department of Economics
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Phone: (614) 292-0654  Fax: ...-3906  Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu

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