From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 2 22:07:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19508 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19489 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (IDENT:WHAT_THE_HELL_YOU_LOOKING_AT_@d60-147.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.147]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA10226; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA12796; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 06:07:07 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981102220707.B12773@nuxi.com> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why a gawk port? Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <363BA3F3.6BE6D10F@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <363BA3F3.6BE6D10F@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 06:57:39PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 ?? I'm still threatening to do just that. I've asked in freebsd-current and want to see if anyone stands up and has a strong NO opinion. Since that has yet to happen, I'm waiting until I'm in the mood to do this and have the time. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message