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From: miracle@sctc.com (Barry Miracle)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need a dos-utility like AWK in unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.195240.14996@sctc.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 19:52:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.173624.18214@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jun27.174550.5785@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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An alternative to AWK is to write a program in ICON.  If the parsing
you need to do will be reused and maintained, or is of substancial
sophistication, then ICON is superior.  If you need to hack out
something quick, then AWK works quite well.  ICON is at
cs.arizona.edu.

Barry

miracle@sctc.com