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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: PD version of nawk (was Re: unix books)
Summary: GNU awk
Message-ID: <4314@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 17:08:57 GMT
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Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
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In-reply-to: mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons)

In article <261@nixba.UUCP>, mike@nixba (Mike Lyons) writes:
| 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?

For a not public domain, but free, version of nawk, get GNU Awk.  I
haven't played around with it much (I prefer Perl now), but I hear it
is pretty stable and useful.

Note: please do not describe GNU as public domain.  It is free.  There
*is* a difference.
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