From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Apr 9 14:19:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B7E37B620 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14599 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 23:22:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA03873 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 23:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A3837B643 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@14-076.006.popsite.net [216.126.137.76]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA47335; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA21376; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:18:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No nawk ?? Message-ID: <20000409141853.C1252@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200004081636.SAA07027@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <38EF78E3.B86EFC11@asme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38EF78E3.B86EFC11@asme.org>; from giffunip@asme.org on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:22:27PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT 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-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:22:27PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Check out mawk; it's faster and is fully POSIX. I agree that nawk is > limited WRT the other awks, but I prefer it for the base system due to > the history it has and because it's smaller and faster than gawk. GNU > awk is the worst of the three options (many bugs, big and slow). If I'm unable to get nawk to work as our base awk, switching to mawk (for the reasons above) is my other plan [sometime in the future of course]. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message