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Date: Sat,  1 Dec 2007 20:09:53 +0100
From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rc: token buffer too short
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Apparrently in quoted strings each character (rune, actually) constitutes
one token. The lexical scanner only holds NTOK (==8192) tokens at a time and
sam and wc convince me you have a 8555 byte string you pass to awk. You
should probably put the awk stuff into a separate file eg.awk and just do
`awk -f eg.awk $*' in eg (cf. chem(1) ). You might have to fiddle with where
you put things, but that seems to be the easiest way out.

	Martin

* Pietro Gagliardi (pietro10@mac.com) wrote:
> Run /n/sources/contrib/pietro/eg (a work-in-progress troff  
> preprocessor for graphs of equations). You get the error described  
> above on a line that contains simply "else". What happened?