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From: rand@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Awk
Message-ID: <284@mks.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 11:34:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.284
Posted: Fri Jul 31 11:34:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 16:30:09 EDT
References: <659@hsi.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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Keywords: source binary PC
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In article <659@hsi.UUCP>, mark@hsi.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) writes:
> I'm looking for an Awk program to run on my MS-DOS machine.  I would like to
> find a source in the public domain, but any info on a version which isn't
> public domain would be very helpful too.
> ....... 
> Net  :  {noao!ihnp4!yale!}!hsi!mark
> Snail:  Health Systems Int'l, 100 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511
> Bell :  (203) 562-2101  ext. 32

In reply to the request for a version of AWK for MS-DOS, Mortice Kern Systems
(MKS) has a version of AWK as just one of the over 110 programs of the
MKS Toolkit.  The Toolkit is available now from the address below
for $139 (US).

Also, the same AWK unbundled (called MKS AWK) is scheduled for release
on October 1, 1987 and will sell for $75 list (+$14 for the optional
AWK book, as below).

The MKS version of AWK is the only (known) MS-DOS implementation that
supports all the latest features in the (soon-to-be) standard reference
book for AWK "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan
which will be published in September 1987.  These features include:
	- function definition
	- static and dynamic regular expression matching and substitution
	- multi-dimensioned arrays
plus all the standard V7, BSD, and System V features of the "old" awk.
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