Xref: utzoo alt.sources.d:1493 comp.lang.perl:4191 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!convex!tchrist From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: An AWK script to check "junk" for newsgroups Message-ID: <1991Feb22.011415.21895@convex.com> Date: 22 Feb 91 01:14:15 GMT References: <112753@mamnix.hamm.sub.org> <~Y+&#J#@ads.com> Sender: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 25 From the keyboard of Sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf): :dglo@ADS.COM (Dave Glowacki) writes: : :] Since, as a rule, EVERY C or shell program posted must be followed up :] by a PERL script, here's my version of NEWJUNK. : :Well. Fine fine. But what about using standard-tools? Which *IX is :_delivered_ with Perl? The one shipped by CONVEX Computer Corporation, of course. Call it competetive advantage. :-) If your vendor doesn't supply perl (and fie on them for not doing so), then it's trivial to get. Of course, gawk is equally easy to get. What systems are _delivered_ with nawk? I don't see why you think a gawk program has something over a perl one; it's certainly slower. If your point is delivered systems, then nawk/gawk scripts aren't the answer. --tom -- "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist