awk format pgm

[Brian Fitzgerald]

David Barrett writes:

I have taken an awk script from page 120 of The Awk
>Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, and tried to get
>it to work.  No luck.

...
>function addword(w) {
 ^^^^^^^^
...

You need new awk.  A public domain implementation version called "gawk"
(for gnu awk) is available by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in
/pub/gnu.  You may also need bison and gcc to compile gawk, and tex to
print the manual, so it might be simpler just get gawk from your site
gnu guru.

Brian