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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Import variables in to awk.
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Date: 18 Nov 89 17:34:55 GMT
References: <10531@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <15919@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <20774@mimsy.umd.edu> <15924@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In-reply-to: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)

In article <15924@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
| 1. Why isn't this mentioned in the BSD man page awk(1), or in the
|    /usr/doc documentation about awk?

I got it by looking through the source.  That's the One True Way to
know things about UNIX.  Too bad the commercial world has seen fit to
lock up the sources now that they "support" (ha!) things.

Just another person who's read *every* line of the V7 source,
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