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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:16:47 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        David O'Brien <dev-null@NUXI.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK
Message-ID:  <20011026001647.A49188@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011026010143.J93553@coffee.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:01:43AM -0400
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:01:43AM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> David O'Brien <dev-null@NUXI.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk?  What about replacing gawk with
> > > bawk?  Any drawbacks?
> >=20
> > bawk is license friendly for us.  I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of
> > our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while.  Want me to ju=
st
> > do the vendor import and cut us over?
>=20
> I'm in favour of this, as a -CURRENT only thang.

Me too (modulo clarification of the license).  One less GNU tool
dependency in FreeBSD.

Kris

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