Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu!theall From: theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Need a dos-utility like AWK in unix Summary: What's wrong with AWK? Message-ID: <45111@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 19:49:28 GMT References: <1991Jun24.173624.18214@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu In article <1991Jun24.173624.18214@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> NARA@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (N. Krishnaiyengar) writes: >I am looking for an utility, that will function like the "awk" function in the >unix. What's wrong with AWK itself? It's been ported to DOS by several folks; there are even freeware implementations in the SIMTEL20 archives: Directory PD1: AWK214.ZIP B 77831 900522 Rob Duff's AWK interpreter, v2.14 AWK300.ZIP B 86767 900713 AWK text scanning and processing language G210DOC.ARC B 298944 890412 Documentation for GNU AWK v2.10 GAWK211.ZIP B 198899 900417 Official release of GNU AWK v2.11 for MSDOS Happy hunting, George --- theall@rm105serve.sas.upenn.edu Dept. of Economics theall@ssctemp.sas.upenn.edu Univ. of Pennsylvania gtheall@penndrls.upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA 19104