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From: lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski)
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Subject: Re: Help With AWK
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 10 Jul 89 20:17:05 GMT
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On 27 Jun 89 16:53:56 GMT,
henry@sun.com (Henry McGilton -- Software Products) said:
> James Murray and Bill Fulton correctly surmised that the version of awk
> documented in the book `The AWK Programming Language' is somewhat
> different from the plain version supplied with SunOS.

While this awk distributed with SunOS4.0 is equivalent to the version 7
awk, there is hope for those with out the bucks to buy nawk from AT&T.
The awk described in the book mentioned above is available (a clone
actually) from the Free Software Fondation (Gnu Project) called GAWK. The
current version is fairly stable at 2.10 and all the features mentioned in
the book and a few enhancements are supported.

While it is true in some cases that the books describe software not
generally available, awk is not one of those cases.

Frank Kolakowski 

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