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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: 4.2BSD awk bugs (was Re: Using pipes within awk programs)
Message-ID: <10309@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 00:47:30 GMT
References: <515@root44.co.uk> <2138@geac.UUCP> <3521@megaron.arizona.edu> <14660@beta.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: awk, pipe, Ultrix, bsd4.2, bugs

In article <14660@beta.UUCP> dph@beta.UUCP (David P Huelsbeck) writes:
>BSD4.2 made some changes to awk.  Since 4.3 came out very shortly
>after I became interested in awk I've never looked to see exactly 
>what they did or why.

It was part of the effort involved in removing *(char *)0 == 0
dependencies.  Someone botched it, though.  Ah well.
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