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From: mika ruohotie <bsdcur@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: still awk problem with cnews...
In-Reply-To: <19971231204528.15046@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from James Raynard at "Dec 31, 97 08:45:28 pm"
To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:08:46 +0200 (EET)
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> > exact error, and cnews seems to be marked as broken...
> I forwarded this bug report, with a set of diffs against vanilla
> gawk-3.0.3, to bug-gnu-utils on 29th November and Cc'd it to the
> maintainer of GNU AWK.  I haven't had a reply yet.

ok.

> > or should i just go and find myself an older awk?
> If you've got the CVS tree, it's not difficult to revert to the
> previous version.  Or just link against a less rigorous malloc :-)

yeah, no prob. i was just wondering had i missed something...


mickey