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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:30:25PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	True, but I'd still hate to see it go.  It's been such a basic 
> part of *nix for so long that I think way more people have come to 
> count on it than anyone realizes.

OK, for awk, it's already been determined we have to keep it. I just vote a 
move over to the awk that OpenBSD has which isn't GPL. In fact, as much as 
we can nick as possible would be good... :-)

-- 
Paul Robinson