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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>,
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Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date'
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:44:39PM -1000, Antony Mawer wrote:
> On 18/08/2006 4:45 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >PS:  Personally I would recommend installing gnu-awk (it
> >was formerly part of the FreeBSD base system, but it was
> >replaced by a crippled awk, unfortunately), instead of
> >hacking date.  I always install gnu-awk because it's so
> >useful.
> 
> That's a bit drastic. Wouldn't be more sensible to encourage someone to 
> add the same feature to our BSD-variety awk?
> 

FreeBSD's awk is the One True Awk.  See its history.  If you
can convince the K in awk to add the feature, then it will
be added to FreeBSD.

-- 
Steve