Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:57:39 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: conrads@neosoft.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why a gawk port? Message-ID: <363BA3F3.6BE6D10F@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810311833260.315-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote: ... > > On top of that, the new awk sources are free, they're a port. > Absolutely nothing whatsoever to be gained in backing up all the way to > the original awk, excepting losing quite a bit of functionality. > I was meaning the "new" awk, I didn't knew the old awk were available (or even remembered anymore ;-). I see kawk is still there..:-(. I really see no reason why we don't replace gawk with nawk as OpenBSD did long ago. Why use GPL when we can have it free ?? Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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