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10.9 Exercises
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  1. In *note Empty Files::, we presented the 'zerofile.awk' program,
     which made use of 'gawk''s 'ARGIND' variable.  Can this problem be
     solved without relying on 'ARGIND'?  If so, how?

  2. As a related challenge, revise that code to handle the case where
     an intervening value in 'ARGV' is a variable assignment.