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| 1 | The Tandem port was done on a Cyclone machine running D20.
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| 2 | The port is pretty clean and all facilities seem to work except for
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| 3 | some of the I/O piping stuff which is just too foreign a concept for
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| 4 | Tandem.
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| 6 | Usage is as for UNIX except that D20 requires all "{" and "}" characters
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| 7 | to be escaped with "~" on the command line (not in script files) and the
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| 8 | standard Tandem syntax for "/in filename,out filename/" must be used
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| 9 | instead of the usual UNIX "<" and ">" for file redirection. (Redirection
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| 10 | options on getline, print etc are supported.)
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| 12 | The -mr=val option has been "stolen" to enable Tandem users to
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| 13 | process fixed-length records with no "end-of-line" character. That
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| 14 | is, -mr=74 tells gawk to read the input file as fixed 74-byte
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| 15 | records.
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| 17 | To build a Tandem executable from source, down-load all of the files
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| 18 | so that the file names on the Tandem box are, for example ARRAYC or
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| 19 | AWKH. That is, make all of the file names conform to the restrictions
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| 20 | of D20. The "totally Tandem-specific" files are in the tandem
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| 21 | "subvolume" and should be copied to the main src directory before
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| 22 | building gawk.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | The file compit can then be used to compile and bind an executable.
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| 25 | Sorry, no make and no autoconfig.
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| 27 | This is my first UNIX port to Tandem so I may well have missed the best
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| 28 | way of doing things: I just desperately needed a working awk at a
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| 29 | Tandem shop.
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| 31 | Cheers,
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| 32 | Stephen Davies
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| 33 | (scldad@sdc.com.au)
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