Re: gawk error

[Scott Deifik]

Regarding the problem below:

Another possibility is that you are working in DOS/Windows and that
both your gawk and nawk are 16-bit executables.  If so, you might try
the djgpp-compiled gawk available at:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/

There are 3 files of interest:
gwk306b.zip  - GNU Awk 3.0.6 for DJGPP V2
gwk306d.zip  - GNU Awk 3.0.6 docs: html/dvi/ps
gwk306s.zip  - GNU Awk 3.0.6 sources

If you specify the version of gawk that you're using and the platform,
responding to the problem is made easier.

Good luck,
     Scott

| From address@hidden  Wed Mar  7 00:52:55 2001
| From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
| Subject: Re: gawk error
| 
| Greetings. Re this:
| 
| > From: "Shaji Philip" <address@hidden>
| > To: address@hidden
| > Cc: address@hidden
| > Subject: gawk error
| > Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 18:02:59 -0000
| >
| > Hi
| >
| > I tried to parse a large file using gawk. Inside gawk the script
| > will store values into several arrays. But while running the script
| > its giving error like
| > gawk: cmd. line:176: fatal: tree_eval: str: can't allocate memory (Not 
| > enough space)
| >
| > When I used nawk the error is
| > nawk: out of space ..........
| > source line number 86
| >
| > I tried using a comparatively small size file and it was working fine.
| >
| > Can you give me some idea to resolve this.
| >
| > Thanks in advance
| >
| > Shaji
| 
| You need to buy more RAM for your computer, or add more swap space.
| Neither awk could allocate enough memory for whatever it is your
| program is trying to do.
| 
| If that's not an option, split your data into pieces and do your
| processing in multiple phases.
| 
| Good luck,
| 
| Arnold
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