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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:32:43 +0000
From: "roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
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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a reason to use here files? :-)

On Dec 1, 2007 7:09 PM, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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?
>