Re: request for feature ... mark+reset ... not a bug.

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Paul Matthews <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:26:16 +1000
> 
> To do the joins I need to 'mark' a line of input and later 'reset' to
> that line.

Why do you need to do that?  Normally I would think that you can join
N files by reading them all sequentially and simultaneously.

> No good getting unix join to do the work cause it's broken for more
> than one key.

Can you give an example of how it's broken?  If GNU join is broken,
then it should get fixed, and then you can use GNU join.

(It might be useful in other cases for gawk to be able to seek, but I
don't yet see why it's needed here.)