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 B.4.2 Installing `gawk' on a Tandem
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 The Tandem port is only minimally supported.  The port's contributor no
 longer has access to a Tandem system.
 
    The Tandem port was done on a Cyclone machine running D20.  The port
 is pretty clean and all facilities seem to work except for the I/O
 piping facilities ( Getline/Pipe,  Getline/Variable/Pipe,
 and  Redirection), which is just too foreign a concept for
 Tandem.
 
    To build a Tandem executable from source, download all of the files
 so that the file names on the Tandem box conform to the restrictions of
 D20.  For example, `array.c' becomes `ARRAYC', and `awk.h' becomes
 `AWKH'.  The totally Tandem-specific files are in the `tandem'
 "subvolume" (`unsupported/tandem' in the `gawk' distribution) and
 should be copied to the main source directory before building `gawk'.
 
    The file `compit' can then be used to compile and bind an executable.
 Alas, there is no `configure' or `make'.
 
    Usage is the same as for Unix, except that D20 requires all `{' and
 `}' characters to be escaped with `~' on the command line (but _not_ in
 script files). Also, the standard Tandem syntax for `/in filename,out
 filename/' must be used instead of the usual Unix `<' and `>' for file
 redirection.  (Redirection options on `getline', `print' etc., are
 supported.)
 
    The `-mr VAL' option ( Options) has been "stolen" to enable
 Tandem users to process fixed-length records with no "end-of-line"
 character. That is, `-mr 74' tells `gawk' to read the input file as
 fixed 74-byte records.
 

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