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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Rampaging Software Installation
Summary: nawk?
Message-ID: <68617@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 03:32:20 GMT
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In article <11288@alice.UUCP>, andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
> ...
> the godforsaken awk that comes standard is 6 years old and doesn't
> even have sub() in it. ...


Does nawk do what you want?

We're just following the rapid-replacement-without-pain plan of awk from
AT&T.  Perhaps a little howling from customers would let us discover that
the next IRIX release is, in the words of nawk(1), "the next major UNIX
system release."

(What inst and MAKEDEV do and should or should not do to /dev has far too
much history and danger for me to say anything about.)


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com