Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:10:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David McKee <david DOT mckee AT rtp DOT gtegsc DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Gawk doesn't like close...
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, David McKee wrote:

>    close bpFile 	#--/ Close Boiler Plate !!! HERE IS WHERE GAWK DIES.

Please in future always describe what exactly does Gawk (or any other
program) print; ``GAWK DIES'' is very emotionally-charged, but its
information content is exceedingly low.

The problem is that the correct way to close a file is this:

	close(bpFile)

Without parentheses, Gawk complains about ``parse error'', at least on
my machine.  I don't know how does Nawk digest the form without the
parens, but I do know that Gawk is very POSIX-compliant, so I think
Nawk will probably also accept the parenthesized form.