Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rose!ehoogerbeets
From: ehoogerbeets@rose.waterloo.edu (Edwin Hoogerbeets)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More wishes: how about a port of awk?
Summary: Awk <- caveman for "big bird we want for dinner"
Keywords: shell programming
Message-ID: <14665@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 89 00:05:05 GMT
References: <1879@leah.Albany.Edu>
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1879@leah.Albany.Edu> ms361@leah.Albany.Edu (Mark Steinberger) writes:
% Has anyone attempted a port of awk to the amiga? 

I have GnuAwk compiled. Unfortunately, there are a few library routines
that have to be written to get it working with Manx. (vfprintf, varargs
and such)

Also, I have to go through the 120 pages (!) of TeX'ed documentation for
it to be able to give it some testing.

It should be ready in a month or so. (no promises ;-)

(BTW - I have already ported GnuSed and sent it to Bob, so it should be
coming across the net soon -- unless he found some bugs???)

Edwin