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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: {g,n,}awk vs. /=/
Message-ID: <9157@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 89 00:00:08 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my posting about {g,n,}awk's odd handling
of commands such as

	awk '/=/'

A GNU person told me the problem is to be fixed in the next release of gawk.

An AT&T person identified the place in the source code where changes would
be needed to fix the behavior of nawk.

And Sun people claim it is not a bug in awk; the awk writeups are to be
changed to explain the situation, though.

Responses very much in line with the corporate mentalities involved, yes?
-- 
	Arthur David Olson   ado@alw.nih.gov   ADO is a trademark of Ampex.