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From: mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix books
Summary: make sure it's nawk
Keywords: unix awk
Message-ID: <261@nixba.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 16:41:19 GMT
References: <19046@adm.BRL.MIL> <7706@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer GSfBA, Nuremberg, West Germany
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In article <7706@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, lynch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes:
> The AWK Programming Language, Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan, Peter Weinberger
> Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.  ISBN 0-201-07981-X
> 
> Essential if you want to use AWK.  And if you don't think you want to
> use awk, then read this book!

true, it's a great book, but the real meat concentrates on the newer version
of awk, which is in System V3.x.  There are a (I've heard) also a couple of
MSDOS versions of new awk.  Anybody out there heard of a public domain or
shareware version of nawk for Un*x or MSDOS?