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From: steve@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Steve Witten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Stand-alone gawk for the Mac
Message-ID: <1750004@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 18:18:40 GMT
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/ hp-ptp:comp.sys.mac.programmer / tcm@moscom.UUCP (Tom Maszerowski) /  9:51 am  Sep 26, 1990 /
> I have ported the GNU version of awk, gawk, to the Macintosh using
> THINK C 4.0.2. It is based on gawk version 2.11 and has been only
> slightly modified. I made the code more ANSI ( at least THINK's
> idea of ANSI ) - compliant and only needed to "fix" a couple of
> function calls. These include popen(), pclose(), fork(), and dup2().
> Documentation and full source, as required by the GNU Copyleft, are
> included. 
> 
> The problem is how do I distribute this? I would like to make it 
> widely available. My work site does not have ftp access to the net.
> I have net access through my grad student account but can't offer
> anonymous ftp. If I post it to comp.binaries.mac, will one of the
> archive sites, like sumex, get it?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Maszerowski	tcm@moscom.com
> 		{rit,tropix,ur-valhalla}!moscom!tcm
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Please post this to comp.binaries.mac.  I have been looking for it for
a long time...  The last copy of GNU gawk I got was a buggy port for
DOS. I gave up on it...

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Steve Witten                    steve%hp-ptp@hplabs.HP.COM
Precision Tools Program         {ucbvax, hplabs}!hp-ptp!steve
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