How to run TAWK Debugger

[alihammadbaig]

I am totally new to AWK and TAWK .. I have studied both a little .. I have managed to compile a few .awk files with the TAWK compiler. But as per the official TAWK source(

http://www.tasoft.com/tawk.html),

TAWK has a debugger too, but I have no idea how to debug the awk files with the TAWK debugger.

I would like some serious help on that.

Thanks and Regards

 

[alihammadbaig]

would somebody please help me out ???

 

[Annihilannic]

Is there any particular reason why you need to compile your awk scripts? I think it's quite unlikely that you'll find many people who actually own and use this software still, since it was apparently discontinued in 1997.

I can't imagine a debugger being necessary for awk scripts unless they are extremely complex.

Annihilannic.

 

[alihammadbaig]

Yes, that's the thing, the script is very complex and is ment for huge processing. The script consists of more than 3000 lines of code and the logic is complex. I read about the debugger on the official site and was wondering if someone could help me out in running the script in debug mode.

 

[Annihilannic]

I do pretty much all my debugging just by adding appropriate if (DEBUG) print "function so-and-so called, parameters: ", a, b, c statements in appropriate places. It may be a bit of work initially but least in future you can turn it on and off easily by just setting DEBUG=0 or DEBUG=1.

Annihilannic.