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From: lang@pearl.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang)
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Subject: Re: UNIX-WIZARDS Digest  V6#080
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Date: 17 Jan 89 14:22:35 GMT
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In article <18108@adm.BRL.MIL>, Pabbisetty.henr@xerox.com (Nagesh Pabbisetty) writes:
+ 
+ Folks,
+ 
+ Sometime aog, I had requested for references/tutorials for awk, lex and
+ yacc. I received a lot of responses. 
... including ... 
+ 9. "A Walk Through AWK" published a couple of years ago in the SIGPLAN
+ Notices is
+ the single best introduction I had seen to awk.  He treated it like an
+ ordinary
+ language first and THEN introduced the wierd features, WITH AN EXPLANATION!

Does anyone have the reference to the SIGPLAN Notice in question?
Our library is missing some issues, and I don't particularly
want to do a linear search through all that we have.

Any pointers will be appreciated.

I also have a copy of an interesting document called
"A Supplemental Document for AWK,
   or,
Things Al, Pete, and Brian Didn't Mention Much"

by John W. Pierce.  This document details a number
of bugs and undocumented features in AWK.
I don't know where it came from, but lots of folks
around here have copies.

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Francois-Michel Lang
Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256
Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA      lang@cis.upenn.edu  (215) 898-9511