Re: VAX FP: awk: floating point exception: Floating point overflow

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:

> Today's slice of VAX fun comes courtesy of this little fragment
>
> echo 12345678911234567892123456789312345678941234567895123456 \
> | awk '{split($0,a);print a[1]}'

I don't have a VAX with NetBSD handy at the moment, but from memory,
this should be fun, too:

echo 'nanotubes' | awk '{print $1}'

-tih
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