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From: weigele@fbihh.UUCP (Martin Weigele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: AWK on MAC?
Message-ID: <444@fbihh.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 09:38:15 GMT
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Organization: University of Hamburg, FB Informatik, W-Germany
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janus@ux.acs.umn.edu (Louis Janus) writes:

>I am very fond of AWK, using the standard UNIX version often,
>as well as the MKS toolkit version on my Zenith Z-100.  Am
>switching some of my research to a Mac II ci and would be
>thrilled to be able to use AWK or something AWK-ish.  I do
>not run (or plan to run) A-UX.

Either:

(i) Convince the Apple board to give up silly lawsuits, then
you could probably get GNU's gawk to work under MPW.
I have been trying to get other GNU tools for use on the MAC,
but the GNU people say they are boycotting Apple. This is
very sad, but I think it is Apple who should change their
policiy rather than GNU.

(ii) Try to port it yourself using MPW C and the gawk source.
Note however the (still existing!) limitations of MPW C for
large data structures (in version 3.1) could make this difficult.

Martin Weigele, FB Informatik, Univ. Hamburg