From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 18 22:07:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17810 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17804 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA04944; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:07:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 01:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "David O'Brien" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement In-Reply-To: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > What do people think about replacing GNU awk in the base system with the > One True Awk(tm) by bwk? How far back you harking? Oawk, no. nawk, yes. You loose too much going back too far. I don't care too much, as long as it's not the old original. Wouldn't even mention it, but I think someone's actually unearthed the old one. You don't want to do that. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" 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-current" in the body of the message