SysV/AT awk problem: Usenet stats script

[John Antypas]

>This means that awk has run out of space.  This is not surprising, as
>the System V/AT awk is complied as a small model program, and only
>has 64K of data.  It evidently was too much trouble to fix the pointer
>references, etc in awk to get it complied as a large model program.

Has anyone been able to get Larry Wall's perl to run on Sys V/AT
to replace the awk that can't.  I try cc perl and get 

Fatal Error -117