Re: Awk Error

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:28:15PM -0800, Perincheril, Seeba wrote:
>       I'm trying to parse a file with a awk scripts. I'm getting
> an error that "Inut line can not be longer than a 3,000 bytes".
> Is this the limit of awk? Which i should use to over come this error?

it depends on the version of your awk.  GNU awk doesn't have such limitation.

Please get GNU awk (gawk) for your system. For example, precompiled version
for Sun is available from: www.sunfreeware.com .

BTW, if you really use Solaris, please _never_ try to use the default
awk or nawk.  Use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk if you cannot get GNU awk.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal