Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:18:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No nawk ?? Message-ID: <20000409141853.C1252@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <38EF78E3.B86EFC11@asme.org>; from giffunip@asme.org on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:22:27PM -0500 References: <200004081636.SAA07027@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <38EF78E3.B86EFC11@asme.org>
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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
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