diff --git a/ase/awk/func.c b/ase/awk/func.c
index 660a827f..9638c688 100644
--- a/ase/awk/func.c
+++ b/ase/awk/func.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * $Id: func.c,v 1.93 2007-02-03 10:47:41 bacon Exp $
+ * $Id: func.c,v 1.94 2007-02-07 07:17:02 bacon Exp $
  *
  * {License}
  */
@@ -20,7 +20,18 @@ static int __bfn_match   (ase_awk_run_t*, const ase_char_t*, ase_size_t);
 static int __bfn_sprintf (ase_awk_run_t*, const ase_char_t*, ase_size_t);
 
 #undef MAX
-#define MAX ASE_TYPE_MAX(ase_size_t)
+#if defined(__HP_cc)
+	#if ASE_SIZEOF_VOID_P == 4
+		#define MAX 0xFFFFFFFFlu
+	#elif ASE_SIZEOF_VOID_P == 8
+		#define MAX 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFllu
+	#else
+		#define MAX ASE_TYPE_MAX(ase_size_t)
+	#endif
+#else
+	#define MAX ASE_TYPE_MAX(ase_size_t)
+#endif
+
 
 static ase_awk_bfn_t __sys_bfn[] = 
 {
diff --git a/ase/configure b/ase/configure
index bf21b2c0..8a3f0a1d 100755
--- a/ase/configure
+++ b/ase/configure
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ ac_includes_default="\
 # include <unistd.h>
 #endif"
 
-ac_subst_vars='SHELL PATH_SEPARATOR PACKAGE_NAME PACKAGE_TARNAME PACKAGE_VERSION PACKAGE_STRING PACKAGE_BUGREPORT exec_prefix prefix program_transform_name bindir sbindir libexecdir datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir libdir includedir oldincludedir infodir mandir build_alias host_alias target_alias DEFS ECHO_C ECHO_N ECHO_T LIBS CXX CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS ac_ct_CXX EXEEXT OBJEXT CC CFLAGS ac_ct_CC RANLIB ac_ct_RANLIB CPP EGREP LIBOBJS LTLIBOBJS'
+ac_subst_vars='SHELL PATH_SEPARATOR PACKAGE_NAME PACKAGE_TARNAME PACKAGE_VERSION PACKAGE_STRING PACKAGE_BUGREPORT exec_prefix prefix program_transform_name bindir sbindir libexecdir datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir libdir includedir oldincludedir infodir mandir build_alias host_alias target_alias DEFS ECHO_C ECHO_N ECHO_T LIBS CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS ac_ct_CC EXEEXT OBJEXT RANLIB ac_ct_RANLIB CPP EGREP LIBOBJS LTLIBOBJS'
 ac_subst_files=''
 
 # Initialize some variables set by options.
@@ -750,22 +750,6 @@ ac_env_target_alias_set=${target_alias+set}
 ac_env_target_alias_value=$target_alias
 ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=${target_alias+set}
 ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=$target_alias
-ac_env_CXX_set=${CXX+set}
-ac_env_CXX_value=$CXX
-ac_cv_env_CXX_set=${CXX+set}
-ac_cv_env_CXX_value=$CXX
-ac_env_CXXFLAGS_set=${CXXFLAGS+set}
-ac_env_CXXFLAGS_value=$CXXFLAGS
-ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set=${CXXFLAGS+set}
-ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_value=$CXXFLAGS
-ac_env_LDFLAGS_set=${LDFLAGS+set}
-ac_env_LDFLAGS_value=$LDFLAGS
-ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=${LDFLAGS+set}
-ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=$LDFLAGS
-ac_env_CPPFLAGS_set=${CPPFLAGS+set}
-ac_env_CPPFLAGS_value=$CPPFLAGS
-ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=${CPPFLAGS+set}
-ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=$CPPFLAGS
 ac_env_CC_set=${CC+set}
 ac_env_CC_value=$CC
 ac_cv_env_CC_set=${CC+set}
@@ -774,6 +758,14 @@ ac_env_CFLAGS_set=${CFLAGS+set}
 ac_env_CFLAGS_value=$CFLAGS
 ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=${CFLAGS+set}
 ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=$CFLAGS
+ac_env_LDFLAGS_set=${LDFLAGS+set}
+ac_env_LDFLAGS_value=$LDFLAGS
+ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=${LDFLAGS+set}
+ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=$LDFLAGS
+ac_env_CPPFLAGS_set=${CPPFLAGS+set}
+ac_env_CPPFLAGS_value=$CPPFLAGS
+ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=${CPPFLAGS+set}
+ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=$CPPFLAGS
 ac_env_CPP_set=${CPP+set}
 ac_env_CPP_value=$CPP
 ac_cv_env_CPP_set=${CPP+set}
@@ -855,14 +847,12 @@ Optional Features:
   --enable-reentrant      define _REENTRANT (default. yes)
 
 Some influential environment variables:
-  CXX         C++ compiler command
-  CXXFLAGS    C++ compiler flags
+  CC          C compiler command
+  CFLAGS      C compiler flags
   LDFLAGS     linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a
               nonstandard directory <lib dir>
   CPPFLAGS    C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have
               headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir>
-  CC          C compiler command
-  CFLAGS      C compiler flags
   CPP         C preprocessor
 
 Use these variables to override the choices made by `configure' or to help
@@ -1318,562 +1308,7 @@ ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
 
 
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-ac_cpp='$CXXCPP $CPPFLAGS'
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-ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
-ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_cxx_compiler_gnu
-if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
-  for ac_prog in $CCC g++ c++ gpp aCC CC cxx cc++ cl FCC KCC RCC xlC_r xlC
-  do
-    # Extract the first word of "$ac_tool_prefix$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy $ac_tool_prefix$ac_prog; ac_word=$2
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-echo $ECHO_N "checking for $ac_word... $ECHO_C" >&6
-if test "${ac_cv_prog_CXX+set}" = set; then
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-  if test -n "$CXX"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_CXX="$CXX" # Let the user override the test.
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-as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
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-    echo "$as_me:$LINENO: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
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-echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
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-   'extern "C" void exit (int) throw ();' \
-   'extern "C" void exit (int);' \
-   'void exit (int);'
-do
-  cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* confdefs.h.  */
-_ACEOF
-cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
-cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-$ac_declaration
-#include <stdlib.h>
-int
-main ()
-{
-exit (42);
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-rm -f conftest.$ac_objext
-if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_compile\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_compile) 2>conftest.er1
-  ac_status=$?
-  grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
-  rm -f conftest.er1
-  cat conftest.err >&5
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); } &&
-	 { ac_try='test -z "$ac_cxx_werror_flag"
-			 || test ! -s conftest.err'
-  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); }; } &&
-	 { ac_try='test -s conftest.$ac_objext'
-  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
-  :
-else
-  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
-sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
-
-continue
-fi
-rm -f conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-  cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* confdefs.h.  */
-_ACEOF
-cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
-cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-$ac_declaration
-int
-main ()
-{
-exit (42);
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-rm -f conftest.$ac_objext
-if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_compile\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_compile) 2>conftest.er1
-  ac_status=$?
-  grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
-  rm -f conftest.er1
-  cat conftest.err >&5
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); } &&
-	 { ac_try='test -z "$ac_cxx_werror_flag"
-			 || test ! -s conftest.err'
-  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); }; } &&
-	 { ac_try='test -s conftest.$ac_objext'
-  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
-  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
-  ac_status=$?
-  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
-  (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
-  break
-else
-  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
-sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
-
-fi
-rm -f conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
-done
-rm -f conftest*
-if test -n "$ac_declaration"; then
-  echo '#ifdef __cplusplus' >>confdefs.h
-  echo $ac_declaration      >>confdefs.h
-  echo '#endif'             >>confdefs.h
-fi
-
-ac_ext=c
-ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
-ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
-ac_link='$CC -o conftest$ac_exeext $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext $LIBS >&5'
-ac_compiler_gnu=$ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu
-
+#AC_PROG_CXX
 ac_ext=c
 ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
 ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
@@ -2209,6 +1644,207 @@ ac_compiler=`set X $ac_compile; echo $2`
   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
   (exit $ac_status); }
 
+cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h.  */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+ac_clean_files_save=$ac_clean_files
+ac_clean_files="$ac_clean_files a.out a.exe b.out"
+# Try to create an executable without -o first, disregard a.out.
+# It will help us diagnose broken compilers, and finding out an intuition
+# of exeext.
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for C compiler default output file name" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for C compiler default output file name... $ECHO_C" >&6
+ac_link_default=`echo "$ac_link" | sed 's/ -o *conftest[^ ]*//'`
+if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link_default\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_link_default) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); }; then
+  # Find the output, starting from the most likely.  This scheme is
+# not robust to junk in `.', hence go to wildcards (a.*) only as a last
+# resort.
+
+# Be careful to initialize this variable, since it used to be cached.
+# Otherwise an old cache value of `no' led to `EXEEXT = no' in a Makefile.
+ac_cv_exeext=
+# b.out is created by i960 compilers.
+for ac_file in a_out.exe a.exe conftest.exe a.out conftest a.* conftest.* b.out
+do
+  test -f "$ac_file" || continue
+  case $ac_file in
+    *.$ac_ext | *.xcoff | *.tds | *.d | *.pdb | *.xSYM | *.bb | *.bbg | *.o | *.obj )
+	;;
+    conftest.$ac_ext )
+	# This is the source file.
+	;;
+    [ab].out )
+	# We found the default executable, but exeext='' is most
+	# certainly right.
+	break;;
+    *.* )
+	ac_cv_exeext=`expr "$ac_file" : '[^.]*\(\..*\)'`
+	# FIXME: I believe we export ac_cv_exeext for Libtool,
+	# but it would be cool to find out if it's true.  Does anybody
+	# maintain Libtool? --akim.
+	export ac_cv_exeext
+	break;;
+    * )
+	break;;
+  esac
+done
+else
+  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
+
+{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: C compiler cannot create executables
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: C compiler cannot create executables
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&2;}
+   { (exit 77); exit 77; }; }
+fi
+
+ac_exeext=$ac_cv_exeext
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_file" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_file" >&6
+
+# Check the compiler produces executables we can run.  If not, either
+# the compiler is broken, or we cross compile.
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether the C compiler works" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking whether the C compiler works... $ECHO_C" >&6
+# FIXME: These cross compiler hacks should be removed for Autoconf 3.0
+# If not cross compiling, check that we can run a simple program.
+if test "$cross_compiling" != yes; then
+  if { ac_try='./$ac_file'
+  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
+    cross_compiling=no
+  else
+    if test "$cross_compiling" = maybe; then
+	cross_compiling=yes
+    else
+	{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
+If you meant to cross compile, use \`--host'.
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
+If you meant to cross compile, use \`--host'.
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&2;}
+   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6
+
+rm -f a.out a.exe conftest$ac_cv_exeext b.out
+ac_clean_files=$ac_clean_files_save
+# Check the compiler produces executables we can run.  If not, either
+# the compiler is broken, or we cross compile.
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether we are cross compiling" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking whether we are cross compiling... $ECHO_C" >&6
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $cross_compiling" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$cross_compiling" >&6
+
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for suffix of executables" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for suffix of executables... $ECHO_C" >&6
+if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_link) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); }; then
+  # If both `conftest.exe' and `conftest' are `present' (well, observable)
+# catch `conftest.exe'.  For instance with Cygwin, `ls conftest' will
+# work properly (i.e., refer to `conftest.exe'), while it won't with
+# `rm'.
+for ac_file in conftest.exe conftest conftest.*; do
+  test -f "$ac_file" || continue
+  case $ac_file in
+    *.$ac_ext | *.xcoff | *.tds | *.d | *.pdb | *.xSYM | *.bb | *.bbg | *.o | *.obj ) ;;
+    *.* ) ac_cv_exeext=`expr "$ac_file" : '[^.]*\(\..*\)'`
+	  export ac_cv_exeext
+	  break;;
+    * ) break;;
+  esac
+done
+else
+  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot compute suffix of executables: cannot compile and link
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: cannot compute suffix of executables: cannot compile and link
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&2;}
+   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+fi
+
+rm -f conftest$ac_cv_exeext
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_exeext" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_exeext" >&6
+
+rm -f conftest.$ac_ext
+EXEEXT=$ac_cv_exeext
+ac_exeext=$EXEEXT
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for suffix of object files" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for suffix of object files... $ECHO_C" >&6
+if test "${ac_cv_objext+set}" = set; then
+  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+else
+  cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h.  */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+rm -f conftest.o conftest.obj
+if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_compile\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_compile) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); }; then
+  for ac_file in `(ls conftest.o conftest.obj; ls conftest.*) 2>/dev/null`; do
+  case $ac_file in
+    *.$ac_ext | *.xcoff | *.tds | *.d | *.pdb | *.xSYM | *.bb | *.bbg ) ;;
+    *) ac_cv_objext=`expr "$ac_file" : '.*\.\(.*\)'`
+       break;;
+  esac
+done
+else
+  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
+
+{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
+See \`config.log' for more details." >&2;}
+   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+fi
+
+rm -f conftest.$ac_cv_objext conftest.$ac_ext
+fi
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_objext" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_objext" >&6
+OBJEXT=$ac_cv_objext
+ac_objext=$OBJEXT
 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... $ECHO_C" >&6
 if test "${ac_cv_c_compiler_gnu+set}" = set; then
@@ -10884,16 +10520,13 @@ s,@ECHO_C@,$ECHO_C,;t t
 s,@ECHO_N@,$ECHO_N,;t t
 s,@ECHO_T@,$ECHO_T,;t t
 s,@LIBS@,$LIBS,;t t
-s,@CXX@,$CXX,;t t
-s,@CXXFLAGS@,$CXXFLAGS,;t t
-s,@LDFLAGS@,$LDFLAGS,;t t
-s,@CPPFLAGS@,$CPPFLAGS,;t t
-s,@ac_ct_CXX@,$ac_ct_CXX,;t t
-s,@EXEEXT@,$EXEEXT,;t t
-s,@OBJEXT@,$OBJEXT,;t t
 s,@CC@,$CC,;t t
 s,@CFLAGS@,$CFLAGS,;t t
+s,@LDFLAGS@,$LDFLAGS,;t t
+s,@CPPFLAGS@,$CPPFLAGS,;t t
 s,@ac_ct_CC@,$ac_ct_CC,;t t
+s,@EXEEXT@,$EXEEXT,;t t
+s,@OBJEXT@,$OBJEXT,;t t
 s,@RANLIB@,$RANLIB,;t t
 s,@ac_ct_RANLIB@,$ac_ct_RANLIB,;t t
 s,@CPP@,$CPP,;t t
diff --git a/ase/configure.ac b/ase/configure.ac
index f69e6c06..cdb05c99 100644
--- a/ase/configure.ac
+++ b/ase/configure.ac
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.53)
 AC_INIT([ase], [deb-0.1.0])
-AC_REVISION([$Revision: 1.74 $])
+AC_REVISION([$Revision: 1.75 $])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([conf_unx.h])
 
 # Checks for programs.
-AC_PROG_CXX
+#AC_PROG_CXX
 AC_PROG_CC
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 
diff --git a/ase/doc/quickstart-en.man b/ase/doc/quickstart-en.man
index a73567e2..31c96497 100644
--- a/ase/doc/quickstart-en.man
+++ b/ase/doc/quickstart-en.man
@@ -12,3 +12,14 @@ set default [-.-.test.awk]
 mms
 awk :== $DISK$GEIN_SYS:[USERS.BACON.ASE.TEST.AWK]awk.exe
 awk -f hello.awk
+
+=== HP-UX ===
+
+HP ANSI C 
+for 64bit
+CC=cc CFLAGS="-O2 +DD64" LDFLAGS="+DD64" ./configure
+
+for 32bit
+CC=cc CFLAGS="-O2 +DD32" LDFLAGS="+DD32" ./configure
+
+