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From: wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSDOS <G>AWK Part 1 of 2
Keywords: GNU AWK MSDOS
Message-ID: <2113@ho95e.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 88 21:56:05 GMT
References: <671@csm9a.UUCP> <216@dutrun.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcs@ho95e.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>,2G218,x0705,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs 46133, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <216@dutrun.UUCP> winffhp@dutrun.UUCP (ruud waij) writes:
:In article <671@csm9a.UUCP> japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
:>I have succesfully ported GNU AWK (GAWK) to MSC 5.0...
:Congratulations !  Would you mind telling what a GNU AWK is ?
	It's dis place in Gnu Joisey :-)

AWK is a string-handling interpretive language commonly found on UNIX.
G's Not Unix is a project of the Free Software Foundation,
	implementing many of the tools found on UNIX and other useful
	operating systems as public domain tools, unshackled from
	licensing and capitalism and the like :-) like software should be.
So GNU AWK is a rewrite of awk.
Another interesting awk variant is an awk compiler recently written at
Bell Labs; I don't know much about it but its author reports speedups
of 2-6x, which make awk code fast enough to be more useful.
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