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From: johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl/104857600)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: awk arguments
Message-ID: <243@eliza.edvvie.at>
Date: 4 Aug 90 10:01:24 GMT
References: <1650@quando.quantum.de>
Organization: Edv GesmbH, Austria/Europa
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From article <1650@quando.quantum.de>, by omerzu@quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu):
> Well, I don't know that book
> and thus I don't know what weaknesses you're pointing at.
> Maybe you could tell us something more specific?

Aho's book covers nawk (new awk) which has some useful features the old awk
is missing (like multiple output files). 
A lot of current UNIX ports still include the old awk. You could try to get
gawk (GNU's awk version), which is nawk-compatible (at least I do believe so).
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