From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 31 16:01:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05976 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05966 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:01:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.45]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA24543; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:04:07 +0500 Message-ID: <363BA3F3.6BE6D10F@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:57:39 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey CC: conrads@neosoft.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why a gawk port? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chuck Robey wrote: ... > > On top of that, the new awk sources are free, they're a port. > Absolutely nothing whatsoever to be gained in backing up all the way to > the original awk, excepting losing quite a bit of functionality. > I was meaning the "new" awk, I didn't knew the old awk were available (or even remembered anymore ;-). I see kawk is still there..:-(. I really see no reason why we don't replace gawk with nawk as OpenBSD did long ago. Why use GPL when we can have it free ?? Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message