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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: bug in awk implementation?
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<<On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:57:42 -0700 (PDT), Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org> said:

> No, you are quoting from the gawk(1) man page. The awk(1) man page makes 
> no such statement.

The awk(1) manual page does not define the correct behavior of
gawk(1).

IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 defines the correct behavior of both awk(1) and
gawk(1), and as I have already demonstrated, it leaves the behavior in
question clearly unspecified.

-GAWollman


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