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From: arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Obsolete awk document
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Date: 3 Apr 89 17:07:12 GMT
References: <431@chem.ucsd.EDU>
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In article <431@chem.ucsd.EDU> jwp@chem.ucsd.edu (John Pierce) writes:
>The current version is the one described in "The AWK Programming Language" by
>Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).  If
>you don't have this version and the book, you should get them.  Source code
>is available (I believe inexpensively) from both AT&T and Addison-Wesley; there
>is a card in the back of the book for obtaining information on how to get it.
>The original version was certainly a useful tool; this version is very much
>superior to it.

All true. If you don't want to spend any money, you can get GNU AWK from
the Free Software Foundation. A new release is due shortly. The current
version, gawk2.02beta, is (modulo some bugs) compatible with the version
in the book. The next release will fix almost all the bugs, add some
additional features not in Unix awk, notably improve performance, and
include a > 100 page texinfo manual on AWK.

Watch gnu.announce; I'll put a note there when the newest version is
available for ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu.
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