Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: Jon.Webb@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Endorsement of GNU Awk Keywords: Software Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 89 00:39:50 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 4 Apr 1989 15:02-EDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 249, message 9 of 20 dcatla!itwaf@gatech.edu (Bill Fulton [Sys Admin]) writes: >> ... >> ... nawk from the AT&T Toolchest. Source code is $300, binary relicensing >> ... > >That's a great price, and I need the nawk functionality, but I've got >enough development projects! I got GNU Awk from prep.ai.mit.edu, compiled it, and it works great. Why pay when you can get good software for free? It seems to have all the functionality documented in the Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger book. -- J