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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: An AWK script to check "junk" for newsgroups
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.202355.22951@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <112753@mamnix.hamm.sub.org> <~Y+&#J#@ads.com> <u4+nMD@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <11548@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <NE-4OD@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <11594@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 1991 20:23:55 GMT

In article <11594@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In a year, this will be a topic for historians.  nawk has priced itself
>out of the market, and gawk is already diverging from nawk.

Nawk is bundled with SVR4, so it is about to become much more prevalent.
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"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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