Hi >From time to time I run out of memory using awk with associative arrays in cygwin. Up to now I rebooted Ubuntu 64, ran the file and returned to cygwin on xp64. I got a new machine with vista ultimate 64 (I had choices of other vistas NO XP)/ Microsoft provides a 64 bit Korn shell with awk (based on interix) which works with ultimate 64 which works up to at least 10GB of memory in awk. There are only about 150 tools provided but it is allegedly possible to build bash on interix as well. I have no idea about performance but its faster than rebooting.
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