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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Nawk for the Next?
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.011452.2156@kithrup.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 01:14:52 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.131810.28716@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>In article <1991Apr23.224835.3126@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> arunc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Arun Chandra) writes:
>>does anyone know if nawk exists for the Next?
>>the version of awk that comes with it seems to be an older version, 
>>without some of the useful functions that are part of nawk.
>I got nawk from the Toolchest and it ported with no problems.
>I don't know about the availablility of a binary version.

Have you tried GNU awk?  It *should* port trivially, although I haven't had
the ability to try it (yet?).

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