From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Apr 8 9:36:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1D437B5C6 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05938 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:40:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA00683 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:36:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7C137B5DD for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA07027; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:36:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:36:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200004081636.SAA07027@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Reply-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No nawk ?? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-arch In-Reply-To: <8cjq58$2c7s$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-arch Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > I'm gonna regret this but ...while people are in this discussion may I > bring again the nawk vs gawk discussion? I'm not a comitter or anything, so maybe I'm not authorized to jump in here, but... Replacing gawk with nawk would be a large step backwards for me, because it would break many (if not most) of my scripts. And this is really _many_. nawk doesn't have such useful things like gensub(), systime(), strftime(), support for certain pseudo-files such as /dev/pid, /dev/user and a lot of other things. Of course, I could install gawk from the ports, but does that justify a step backwards? I'd think it violates POLA. At the very minimum, I'd have to fix the path #!/usr/bin/awk -f in all of the scripts... :-) Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver PS: I do not like tcsh at all (I'm into zsh, which -- by the way -- can emulate csh within certain limits), but replacing csh with tcsh is at least a step _forward_, somehow. -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message