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From: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Awk
Message-ID: <638@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 17:43:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 17:43:04 1987
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Reply-To: rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman
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In article <3430003@hpsrlc.HP.COM> darrylo@hpsrlc.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:
>     On some BBSes, there is a program called BAWK, which purports to be a
>"version" of awk for MSDOS.  It usually comes with sources only (i.e., NO
>executables).  Out of curiosity, I compiled it -- and managed to do it --
>but that's about it.  I really don't know if it works, or, if it does work,
>how well it works (I don't know much about awk -- the only time I tried to
>use awk on UN*X, I couldn't because of a bug in UN*X awk).
 Well, I can't claim to be an expert on awk, but I've used bawk and it seems
to work.  It doesn't implement the full awk, but the parts that it does do
it does correctly.  I have taken a script written for bawk and used it on
the real thing with no problem except for a slight incompatibility in how
the FILENAME internal variable is handled (sorry, I don't remember the
details except that there was an incompatibility). 
  You will want to make sure that the #define in the bawk
code to set the line length (don't remember the name, but it's something
obvious) is set to something good and long.  Strange things happen when
it reads in a too-long line, and the original line-length value of 128
wasn't long enough for what I was doing.
  If you can't find it at a local BBS, Sourcery Systems BBS has it.
Their number is 405-728-2463.  They've got all sorts of other goodies too.
As I recall, they have both C source and executable for BAWK.  
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