Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:37:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement Message-ID: <199810191537.LAA05261@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0zVFqc-000WyOC@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> <m0zVFqc-000WyOC@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
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<<On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:59:46 +0200 (CEST), naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) said: > In article <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com>, > David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote: >> What do people think about replacing GNU awk in the base system with the >> One True Awk(tm) by bwk? > Because it doesn't conform to POSIX, and like other UNIX(TM) code from > that era probably has undocumented fixed-size array limitations? How about you actually look at the code before you make such statements? -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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