From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 08:38:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16335 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16330 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:38:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA05261; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:37:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:37:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199810191537.LAA05261@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement In-Reply-To: References: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < In article <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com>, > David O'Brien 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