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Article #4249Re: Gnu-awk (gawk) memory problems under MSDOS
From: John Stanley
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 18:09
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 18:09
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barron@desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Daniel Barron) writes: > I'm writing a Gnu-awk (gawk) script on an IBM XT with MSDOS 3.3. > It's designed to massage data from one program's output to another's > input. Problem is, each time a line is processed, about 10-15K of > memory gets used (checked via system( "chkdsk" ) ). After 25-30 lines > I get > > xalloc: no memory! > > Help! What could make my program gobble memory? A bad function call? I ran into this, too. It looks like any piping (|) done in the scripts gets buffered internally in awk, and it runs out of memory. When I changed the design to "print >> file" then have DOS "dos-command << file" it cleared up. Since there is a file involved in both cases, it really isn't a problem to create one.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mit-eddie!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Gnu-awk (gawk) memory problems under MSDOS Message-ID: <1a1RV2w163w@phoenix.com> Date: 14 Jan 91 18:09:47 GMT References: <35613@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: Not BIFF At All (NBAA) Lines: 19