HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: thompssp@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Steven P. Thompson)
Subject: Re: aquarium services offered
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:07:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.4599.7042@dosgate> "mike primorac" <mike.primorac@canrem.com> writes:
>        Hi, I'm posting this message for a friend of mine
> who has lots of experience regarding fresh and saltwater
> aquariums.
>
>        If you've been having trouble with your aquarium
> or would like a professional to set one up for you, then
> you're in luck because Craig at Eco-Life Aquariums is the
> man to call.  Also, if you would like your aquarium cleaned
> and maintained on a regular basis he can make pre-arranged
> house calls.  The rates for these and many other services
> are quite affordable and Craig takes personal pride in
> providing a pleasant service with a smile.  Please call
> (416)-793-5963 after 8:00 p.m on weeknights and ask for
> Craig LeMasurier.
>
>        From personal experience I can tell you that he
> made a considerable difference in the way that my reef
> looks.  Since I have subscribed to his service I find
> that the corals are doing much better than before and
> my mushrooms have rapidly divided.  It was money well
> spent, and the price was highly affordable too.
>
> Mike Primorac
>--
>Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
>World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044

     This seems to me to be a definate violation of protocol. Is it appropriate
to run a "business" add on the net? (Anyone care to flame me for saying so?)


                                     ~Steve



Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
From: abilenko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Arkady Bilenko)
Subject: (fF)  Info on Black Tetras is sought
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:40:33 GMT

	Dear Netters,
A local petshop just received a black tetras in enourmous quantity, and they
are selling them very cheaply.  Since I was looking for more fish anyway and
these looked very intresting, I am considering buying them.  However, I was
wondering, what are their habbits?  I.e. are they peaceful, do they school,
will they harass smaller fish?  Any info would be appreciated, but please, 
try to respond ASAP.  The current setup:
30G with a UGF and Penguin 550
Ammonia, Nitrite =0
Water is a little green :(
Live plants:  Val, Cabomba, Java moss
Other fish:  17 cardinal tetras (1-2"), one clown loach (2"), 2 small angels
(1.5").
	Thanks again, -Arkady

Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
From: thompssp@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Steven P. Thompson)
Subject: [M] Anemone
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:22:09 GMT


     I am new to the marine hobby and I have a question. I know that there are
no absolutes when it comes to picking an anemone for a clown, but tell me what 
you think.
     I have a Percula Clown and the little guy seems to be lost. It spends it's
time trying to hide behind my corner filter. Would this little dude like an
anemone to play in? If so, what kind is the best? I don't trust the fish store
people much when it comes to this. I think they were just trying to sell me the
most expensive thing in the store.
     Any help would be appreciated!

                                                     ~Steve

Xref: sparky alt.aquaria:6676 rec.aquaria:10252 sci.aquaria:1902
From: davep@paladin.corp.sgi.com (David Packer)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria,sci.aquaria
Subject: Re: [M] HELP!  What happened to my Cowfish...
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:32:26 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: paladin.corp.sgi.com


In my experience,  I have found that adding live rock
to an already established, non-live-rock or non-reef
setup is a big NONO. Unless you take the measures to
kill everything that could be a parasite on the live
rock(which usually results in dead rock).

I once(sniff :( ), had a beautiful Powder Blue Tang.
In my 40G tank, (I have a reef also).  He was the 
BFIT (BIG FISH IN TANK).  He really made the tank
lively and used to play and seemed to get along really
well with my foxface.

I put a piece of live rock in the tank, thinking that
it would make the tank more "homey" for the fish. My
blue tang got really sick and died about 5 weeks later.
(Of black ich). My other fish broke out with various
other strains of ich. So I treated the tank which
stressed out the remaining 4 fish but killed the live
rock and the ich. Now the rest of the fish are depressed,
or maybe it's just me......

Dave
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
From: dbs@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Dave Sheehy)
Subject: Re: (All)  New African set-up.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:39:12 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.3 PL7]
Followup-To: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria

01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu wrote:
: I.e.	how to set up caves for an electric-blue haplochromis-sized fish.
: 	the best type of filtration for this sort of set-up.
: 	best rocks/gravel to use
: 	et cetera

I use crushed coral as a substrate for my UGF. It helps keep the water nice
and hard.

I have a layer of window screen sanwiched in the middle of the gravel so the
fish can't dig all the way down to the filter plate. Mbuna are the worst 
diggers but even haps and peacocks will dig. If I had it to do over again I
would use a layer of eggcrate over the UGF instead as suggested by another
netter (Shine?). Then you can still vacuum all the gravel over the UGF and 
not just the top layer as in my current setup. Someday I'm going to change
over to eggcrate (and won't that be fun!).

In one tank I use lava rock and it looks fine. In another tank the rock is
around 80% flattish river rocks and it looks better. Casual unbiased observers
seem to prefer the river rock from an aesthetic point of view.

I basically fill the tank with rock leaving enough space around the front and
side glass so that I can clean it. Think about leaving some 'channels' in the
stack of rocks such that you can reach as much substrate as possible for 
gravel cleaning purposes.

Dave Sheehy

: 			-Matt
Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: edw@psg.com (Ed Wright)
Subject: Re: tolower() function?
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:33:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.012739.26965@chpc.utexas.edu> rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman) writes:
>In article <C184vr.p5q@austin.ibm.com> tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates)
>writes:
>
>>Quoting "The AWK Programming Language",
>>
>>	"The cleanest way to do case conversion in awk is with an array that
>>maps each letter...it's better to use...tr"
>>
>>I often use tr for this very reason. For example:
>>
>>	echo "HeLlO, wOrLd!" | tr [:upper:] [:lower]
 try                         | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
-- 
 REAL RADIOS             edw@m2xenix.psg.com            GLOW IN THE DARK
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<<^^>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    >>No Voice>>>>>> Amateur Radio   KA9AHQ @ 28.340  <<<<<<<No Vice<<
  >>> Kshatriya Auscultating 9 Ailurophiles Hypothesizing Quodlibets <<<
From: samer@bass.bu.edu (Samer Faraj)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
Subject: About AWKCC
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:07:49 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boston University

I have been using AWK for some time on a AUX (RS/6000) machine.  My
processing is very time intensive, so I thought about compiling my
programs using AWKCC.  Neither I nor my sysadmin could find AWKCC.
Is it part of the AWK package or is it a separate package?  How and 
where do I get a copy on the net?

thanks,


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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: tbates@austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: tolower() function?
Originator: tbates@rama.austin.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:55:03 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


In article <EMCOOP.93Jan19111755@bcars148.bnr.ca>, emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith) writes:
> In article <1993Jan19.152725.3510@trentu.ca> ccgwt@trentu.ca (Grant Totten) writes:
> 
>    Is there a 'covert the line to lower case' function available in awk?
>    Or even 'convert to lower case except for the first character of the
>    line' function?
> 
> gawk has tolower
> --
> Hume Smith                                    My name is little Bongo
> hume.smith@acadiau.ca                         I sing my little song-go
> emcoop@bnr.ca                                 Rhymes are hard to think of
>                                               Except for made-up words like "flong-go"

Quoting "The AWK Programming Language",

	"The cleanest way to do case conversion in awk is with an array that
maps each letter...it's better to use...tr"

I often use tr for this very reason. For example:

	echo "HeLlO, wOrLd!" | tr [:upper:] [:lower]

This gives you:

	hello, world!

To use tr from awk:

#!/bin/awk -f
   {
   "echo "$0" | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]" | getline
   print
}

To skip the first character:

#!/bin/awk -f
   {
   start_of_line=$0
   rest_of_line=$0
   start_of_line=substr($0,1,1)
   rest_of_line=substr($0,2)
   "echo " rest_of_line " | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]" | getline rest_of_line
   print start_of_line rest_of_line
}

	Sincerely,
		Tom
-- 
Tom Bates

IBM Austin

Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: About AWKCC
Followup-To: alt.lang.awk
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:49:38 GMT

awkcc is a package one purchases from ATT Toolchest BBS.  That's the only
place of which I am aware that it exists.

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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: sgcraw@CS.ColoState.EDU (stewart crawford)
Subject: Re: How does one do matching within an if expression?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:29:07 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1993Jan15.125915.5819@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>$0 ~ /string 1/ {
>		if ( $0 !~ /string 2/)
>			print $0
>		}
>
>but haven't been able yet to figure out the proper syntax.


I think we need some thought clarification here.
You've got two conditions which, when both satisfied, you want an action.
The "pattern" part of an awk line is where you spell out conditions.
Therefore:

	$0 ~ /string 1/  &&  $0 !~ /string 2/		{ print $0 }

stew crawford.

Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: chawley@sundiver.esd.sgi.com (Christopher J. Hawley)
Subject: Re: awk compilers
Reply-To: chawley@sundiver.esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. / DSSD
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:31:50 GMT

    In article <1993Jan22.210456.25409@psych.toronto.edu>,
gswan@psych.toronto.edu (George Swan) writes:

+ From: gswan@psych.toronto.edu (George Swan)
+ Subject: awk compilers for MS-DOS (was Re: About AWKCC)
+ Message-ID: <1993Jan22.210456.25409@psych.toronto.edu>
+ Summary: Such things exist
+ Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
+ Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:04:56 PDT

	[11 lines omitted]
+ Thompson Automation, of uh, I forget, has been selling
+ an awk compiler for MS-DOS for at least a year now.
+ I have basically been happy with it.  One strange feature
+ is that all of the binaries it has created for me have all
+ been the same size.

    Hmm, this sounds kinda familiar... an obscure feature of  awk , frequently
disabled during compilation (making it unavailable), was the ability to write
a core image of  awk  after it had parsed the supplied script (program).  If
this feature is enabled, the command

		awk -S -f script.awk

would produce a file named  awk.out  -- a core image.  This image could be
subsequently "resumed" with the command

		awk -Rawk.out  [filename]

under the right conditions -- one being the requirement that the text segment
be writeable -- with (potential!) saving of time which would otherwise be
needed to parse the script file.

    It's a long shot, but my guess is that the T.A. compiler does something
similar: it creates a post-parsing core image of some  awk  (either embedded,
or on your system (does the compiler require you to have  awk  installed?)),
and wraps the image in a skeleton to produce an executable file.

[ Just for grins, try disassembling a program which the compiler produces to
  see if there's an obvious connection.  e.g.: embedded  awk  usage message.
]


    If you're curious, there's a short paper called

                    A Supplemental Document For AWK
                                 -or-
             Things Al, Pete, And Brian Didn't Mention Much

written some time ago by John W. Pierce, which describes several features,
known bugs, etc.; it also contains practical suggestions, plus interesting
or obscure (albeit dated) tidbits about  awk .  I'm not exactly certain of
the archive location from which I FTP'd the paper, but I think it's archived
on  cs.toronto.edu:  with the filename "awk.supp", somewhere under  doc/ 
directory.
Don't hold me to that, though; check with  archie  first if possible.


#include <std/disclaimer.h>
   /*  Employed by SGI in a non-speaking capacity.  All opinions are mine. */

-- 
					- Christopher J. Hawley / esper
From: sumonbha@almaak.usc.edu (Sumon Bhaumik)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
Subject: Help
Date: 27 Jan 1993 22:18:26 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

Guys, I am a new comer to awk. I am trying to do the following. I have a 
data set with 8 fields and 40000 rows. $1 is household id numbers. There
are repetations in $1. What I want to do is to keep the row in which a
household id appears first and delete all other rows with the same household
id. 

How do I do this? 

Whoever is helping me, thank you. Can you please send the solution to my
email address?

Sumon


	
Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: petit@lirac.ibp.fr (Pascal PETIT)
Subject: Re: Counting
Organization: LITP, IBP, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, 4 place
	Jussieu, 75252 PARIS CEDEX 05, France telephone : +33 (1) 44-27-61-99,
	fax: +33 (1) 44-27-40-42
	<etxalve.727519406@xmas>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:15:18 GMT

In article <etxalve.727519406@xmas> etxalve@xmas.ericsson.se (Bengt Alverborg TM/SDB 34369 2670 ( tom -> 930301  )) writes:

   >>I have a test file that is seperated in to columns.  I would like to
   >>increment a counter when the second column(TIME) is on the hour
   >>(ex.  1:00--> i=1,   2:00 -->i=2...)
           ^         ^    #         #



   #!/bin/awk -f
   $2 ~ /[0-9]:00/ {count++}
   END { printf "\n\nCount is:%d\n\n",count }

   And it will work perfectly for the second column (TIME) (hopefully)!


it counts the number of lines. but to get the hour in an expression
like this try : 

#!/bin/awk -f
   $2 ~ /[0-9]:00/ {split($2,time,/:/);i = time[1];print i}

if the file is :
adsfd 1:00
dafhsldkj kdsflhlsd
kjdahslka 34:00


it will print :
1
34



hope it will help.
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From:  tardif@gel.ulaval.ca (Pierre-Martin Tardif)
Subject: Re: Weird message
Organization: Universite Laval
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:12:55 GMT

Please, stop talking about that guy...  This group
is just perfect and is there is enough traffic for
everyone here.  Then, the comp.lang.c* groups shall
not exist ????

				PMT
--
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Laboratoire de Vision et Systemes Numeriques
Universite Laval, Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, local 00100-I, Ste-Foy, Quebec,
Canada, G1K 7P4         (418-656-2131, ext 4848)
Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: sasjqw@micro.unx.sas.com (Jon White)
Subject: Re: Help learning awk
Originator: sasjqw@micro.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:28:33 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry Churchyard) writes:
:   There is a long tutorial in the distribution of gawk, 
: but you might have to use emacs to view it (texinfo format).

There's also a postscript version of the gawk manual,
available via anonymous ftp:

     prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gawk-ps-2.14.tar.Z

-jon

Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates)
Subject: Re: Help learning awk
Originator: tbates@rama.austin.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13:37 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin


In article <1993Jan22.115524.17256@cas.org>, lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
> I know of several alternatives for you.  Perhaps someone else can provide 
> you with details on how to locate them.
> 
> 1. Contact a local library (college, university or public) and have a
> literature search down for the awk programming language.  There have been
> tutorials written in various Sun oriented and Unix oriented magazines 
> teaching awk usage over the past few yrs.
> 
> For instance, the SIGPLAN Notices, V18 #12 - Dec. 1983 has an article
> called "A Walk Through AWK" written by Leon S Levy of Bell Labs which
> is very good.
> 
> 2. Look for a document, which is available online somewhere, called:
> "A Supplemental Document for AWK, - or -, Thanks Al, Pete, And Brian
> Didn't Mention Much" by John W Pierce, Univ of California, San Diego.
> 
> 3. Using gopher, go searching for guides to awk written at other colleges
> and universitys.
> -- 
> Larry W. Virden                 UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
> Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas  INET: lvirden@cas.org
> Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614


Try finding "The AWK Programing Language" at your better bookstore.  It's
written by the original authors  and I have found it very helpful.  I got mine
at BOOKSTOP.

	Sincerely,
		Tom
-- 
Tom Bates

IBM Austin

Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: must@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mustafa Syed)
Subject: How to use awk to.....
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: w
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 00:19:23 GMT

	I have just started to use awk so am still not clear about a lot
	of awk utilities. I am presently using awk in a very basic mode to
	clean up the output of another program and get only needed columns
	of data. Now I want to get the data in multiple column format as
	shown below:

	Raw data:
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd
	rrrr xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx dddd

	current refinement:
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd

	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd
	rrrr dddd

	.........

	needed refinement:
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........
	rrrr dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd .........

	Is there a way to do this as a single refinement or even 2 step
	refinement? Also I have many such data files, right now I just
	run the awk file on each one on console. Is it possible to specify
	several data input files in awk executable file and then just run
	it once!

	Thanks,

	Mustafa Syed.
Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: males@wotangate.sc.ti.com (Mike Ales)
Subject: Re: Histogrammer?
Reply-To: males@wotangate.sc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:12:36 GMT

 I recently wrote a Histogrammer also. The way I got around part
 of the speed problem was to use "sort" to create the input file
 for awk to do the histogram. It is somewhat faster.

 If anyone wants the source files without warranty. Drop me a
 line and I will email them to you.

Regards, Mike Ales
email : males@wotangate.sc.ti.com   

As usual these are my own opinions and TI generally disagrees with them.



Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu (Chris Adams)
Subject: Help learning awk
Organization: GTMB: The $1.98 Noise of the Southland
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:11:18 GMT
X-Posted-From: sundial.gatech.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I need help.  I would like to learn how to program awk, but I don't know where
to start.  I can't afford to buy the books I have seen.  Is there any
electronic document that I could learn from?  I tried the man page, but it was
to brief for me.  Thanks!
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: etxalve@xmas.ericsson.se (Bengt Alverborg TM/SDB 34369 2670 ( tom -> 930301  ))
Subject: Re: awk compiler, exists such a beast?
Keywords: awk , compiler
Organization: Ericsson
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:46:38 GMT

fred@masi.ibp.fr (Frederic PETROT) writes:


>Hello boys and girls,
>I was wondering if someone had written a awk compiler, since it may be very
>useful for speedup once a programm debugged!
>In the same order of ideas, does a traducer to C, lex and yacc exist for
>awk? (only if the compiler doesn't exist!)

>Thanks for any answers,

>Fred.


I have been looking for this program for ages myself. 
In the book "sed & awk" by Dale Dougherty (1992) he spends a whole
chapter discussing the "awkcc" - an awk-to-C compiler, but I haven't
seen anything of it. The closest I've gotten to finding it is two
man-pages describing how wonderful it is!

Please post info here or mail how and where to find this awkcc!

Kind regards,
Bengt



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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Texinfo (Was: Re: Help learning awk)
Followup-To: alt.lang.awk
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:38:43 GMT

I know of 4 alternatives to emacs for reading texinfo files.  3
are available on prep.ai.mit.edu.

1. Use the texinfo macros with TeX and just print the document.
This is the alternative which requires software not on prep (as far as I
know - you have to have TeX installed on your system).

2. Use texi2roff and convert the texinfo file to a nroff/troff version.

3. Use the info command to get a termcap/curses based interface to the
texinfo files - limited hypertext online readable doc.

4. Use the xinfo command to get an X11 interface to many texinfo files.  Xinfo
is a bit out of date and won't read some texinfo files - I don't know if
gawk is one of them.  If it won't read gawk texinfo, perhaps someone out
there who knows X11 would be kind enough to fix xinfo so that it can be
used...


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