Re: The correct way to print hex number as dec number?

[david kerns]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 3:49 AM <address@hidden> wrote:

> david kerns <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > hmmm, looks like my "main" machine is using "real" (as in aho weinberger
> say rather, "original".
> > kernighan) awk
>

How about if I call it "my father's awk" ;) ... or more suitable for me:
"awk before I was a father"

You're on a Mac. The Apple user land is criminally out of date.
> There have been 13 years' worth of fixes since then, see the
> git repo for Unix awk (https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk).
>

I use gawk for the superior features, ... and because I use CentOS at work,
so it's what is there

> gawk has the "bug"
>

This was meant to be a joke... I apologize if I offended you. keep up the
great work!