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GNU Info (gawk.info)Tandem InstallationInstalling `gawk' on a Tandem ----------------------------- The Tandem port is only minimally supported. The port's contributor no longer has access to a Tandem system. The Tandem port was done on a Cyclone machine running D20. The port is pretty clean and all facilities seem to work except for the I/O piping facilities (Note: Using `getline' from a Pipe., *Note Using `getline' into a Variable from a Pipe: Getline/Variable/Pipe, and Note: Redirecting Output of `print' and `printf', which is just too foreign a concept for Tandem. To build a Tandem executable from source, download all of the files so that the file names on the Tandem box conform to the restrictions of D20. For example, `array.c' becomes `ARRAYC', and `awk.h' becomes `AWKH'. The totally Tandem-specific files are in the `tandem' "subvolume" (`unsupported/tandem' in the `gawk' distribution) and should be copied to the main source directory before building `gawk'. The file `compit' can then be used to compile and bind an executable. Alas, there is no `configure' or `make'. Usage is the same as for Unix, except that D20 requires all `{' and `}' characters to be escaped with `~' on the command line (but _not_ in script files). Also, the standard Tandem syntax for `/in filename,out filename/' must be used instead of the usual Unix `<' and `>' for file redirection. (Redirection options on `getline', `print' etc., are supported.) The `-mr VAL' option (Note: Command-Line Options.) has been "stolen" to enable Tandem users to process fixed-length records with no "end-of-line" character. That is, `-mr 74' tells `gawk' to read the input file as fixed 74-byte records. automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |