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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: "new" awk
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Date: 2 Jan 90 16:02:55 GMT
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In article <33329@admin.mips.COM> adam@mips.COM (Adam Joseph) writes:
>
>Has anyone ported the "new" awk that AT&T has released in source form
>to the MIPS?  
>
>We have some folks out here that are interested in getting a license, but
>are looking for some thoughts from those who have done it before.

I received this response from the person who was responsible for our commands
base for the past year`or so:

#We ported awk from svr3.1 to UMIPS3.0 last year.  However, we did
#not name it nawk, we named it awk.  (I updated the tutorial on awk in the 
#Programmers Supplementary Manual but failed to make the appropriate changes
#to the sysV man pages - I will get that off to doc this week.) This version 
#of awk matches the descriptions in the book "The AWK Programming Language" 
#by Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger published by Addison-Wesley in 1988.  
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.      phone: +1 408 720-2939
928 E. Arques Ave.  Sunnyvale, CA  94086                        rogerk@mips.COM
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