[ On Thursday, May 3, 2001 at 08:42:00 (+1000), Giles Lean wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: multiple greps, buffering, regular expressions 
>
> fflush() is a non-standard GNU awk function.

Just a minor correction on that point....  The fflush() function does
appear in The One True Awk, and according to the MAWK manual:

    The builtin fflush first appeared in a recent (1993) AT&T awk
    released to netlib, and is not part of the posix standard.

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