Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:39:14 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement Message-ID: <19981018223914.B25719@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810190105490.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 01:07:10AM -0400 References: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810190105490.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > What do people think about replacing GNU awk in the base system with the > > One True Awk(tm) by bwk? > > How far back you harking? Oawk, no. nawk, yes. You loose too much Good question. Our kawk port (kawk-98.02.11). from http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bwk/awk.tar.gz To quote: This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language", by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X). It is under a Berkeley/MIT/CMU like copyright. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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