From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 18 22:39:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21143 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21135 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id WAA25835 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:39:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981018223914.B25719@nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:39:14 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 01:07:10AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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