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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: awk -f - in Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <20204@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 01:24:51 GMT
References: <20082@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar20.171431.13307@math.ucla.edu> <4678@osc.COM> <2182@riscy.enet.dec.com> <4692@osc.COM>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <4692@osc.COM> chang@osc.UUCP (Lai-Chang Woo) writes:
> In article <2182@riscy.enet.dec.com> frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
> >In article <20082@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
> >(George Robbins) writes:
> >
> >> It is also mildly amusing to note that nawk doesn't support "-f -"
> >
> >... but the ULTRIX nawk man page explicitly says that it does:
> 
> Besides, I tested it before posting the suggestion to use nawk.

Well, I tested it also, before saying that it didn't, the only problem
being that your nawk and my nawk were different nawks, since I'm still
running 3.1C and I didn't see nawk in my 4.1 stuff (hidden in /bin 8-).
Sorry for the confusion, just another ultrixism...

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