Re: gawk networking problem

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. This does not happen on Linux with gawk 3.1.7 or with my
development version. Please try upgrading.

Thanks for the report.

Arnold

> From: "XyXyber" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Subject: gawk networking problem
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:06:50 +0200
>
> Dear guys,
>
> Why your own examples from page 10 in "TCP/IP Internetworking with gawk"
> doesn't run under GNU Awk 3.1.6 neither under NetBSD nor under Windows
> Cygwin:
>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # Server
> BEGIN {
> print strftime() |& "/inet/tcp/8888/0/0"
>
> close("/inet/tcp/8888/0/0")
> }
>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It fails with error message: 
> "fatal: remote host and port information (0, 0) invalid"
>
> Best regards
>
> Frank