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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: mawk -- a port to Minix?
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Date: 7 May 91 09:15:07 GMT
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In article <3937@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP@ brennan@ssc-vax.UUCP (Michael D Brennan) writes:
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@Mawk 0.97 an implementation of awk as defined in 
@Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language,
@Addison-Wesley, 1988
@can be obtained by anonymous ftp from oxy.edu (134.69.1.2).
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@
@Maybe someone would be interested in porting this to Minix.

It would be nice if somebody did this.  The current bawk is not complete,
not conformant, and highly flakey.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)