Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpcea!hpccc!lufkin From: lufkin@hpccc.HP.COM (Paul Lufkin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Need AWK for MS-DOS System Message-ID: <5060019@hpccc.HP.COM> Date: 22 Mar 88 17:30:56 GMT References: Organization: HP Application Support Division Lines: 26 (My apologies to the net: I tried to mail to the requestor several different ways, all without success.) There's a pretty good implementation of awk in the MKSToolkit from: Mortice Kern Systems, Inc. 43 Bridgeport Road East, Waterloo, Ontario Canada, N2J 2J4 (519) 884-2251 {allegra,decvax,ihnp4}!watmath!mks!toolkit I say 'pretty good' only because I have not *exhaustively* tested it, but so far it seems to have all the 'new' awk features described in Aho, Kernighan and Aho's "The AWK Programming Language" (1988) such as expanded string manipulation capability and user defined function. The Toolkit also includes all the important standard UN*X tools and a pretty good implementation of vi. Current list price is on the order of $140, but if you check the ads (ie. Programmer's Connection, for one) I think you can get it for around $100. Cheers, Paul Lufkin, Jr. Hewlett-Packard Application Support Division lufkin@hpccc or [hpda|hpfcla]!hpwcso!paul