NAME

revtwoway - Reverse strings sample two-way processor extension

SYNOPSIS

@load "revtwoway"

    BEGIN {
        cmd = "/magic/mirror"
        print "hello, world" |& cmd
        cmd |& getline result
        print result
        close(cmd)
    }

DESCRIPTION

The revtwoway extension adds a simple two-way processor that reverses
the characters in each line sent to it for reading back by the AWK
program. It's main purpose is to show how to write a two-way extension,
although it may also be mildly amusing.

SEE ALSO

GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, and the man pages for the other
extensions shipped with gawk.

AUTHOR

Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.

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