Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:35:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: conrads@neosoft.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why a gawk port? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810311833260.315-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <363B93E9.62D53E4E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > This sounds like good news..maybe the old gawk in the distribution was > replaced with Brian Kernighan's original awk ??? No. Two reasons, posted before, is that the original awk was very, very dumb, which is why nawk came out. Most systems past V7 just renamed the original (old) ask as oawk, and put in the new awk as either awk or nawk with a link to awk. 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. > > Pedro. > > Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > > > Isn't GNU awk already in the source tree? > > > > -- > > Conrad Sabatier > > > > Machine-Independent, adj.: > > Does not run on any existing machine. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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