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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:07:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU Awk replacement
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810190105490.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com>

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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David O'Brien wrote:

> 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
going back too far.  I don't care too much, as long as it's not the old
original.  Wouldn't even mention it, but I think someone's actually
unearthed the old one.

You don't want to do that.

> 
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> -- David    (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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