From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 14:24:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21222 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21217 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.42.77] (helo=jraynard.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05demon1 #1) id 0zVMmW-00029L-00; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:24:01 +0000 Received: (from fcurrent@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA01469; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:11:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from fcurrent) Message-ID: <19981019211113.21905@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:11:13 +0100 From: James Raynard To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement References: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> <19981018223914.B25719@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19981018223914.B25719@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 10:39:14PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 10:39:14PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > Good question. Our kawk port (kawk-98.02.11). > from http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bwk/awk.tar.gz I put a bmake/contribified version of this on my Web page (http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard), several months before the port went in. It includes ache's I18N patches, amongst other things. I haven't committed it because: 1. I don't know how to test the I18N stuff. 2. I'm not sure how Posix-compliant it is - it fails some of the Posix tests that come with GNU awk, and I'm not convinced they're all GNU-specific. 3. I didn't get any response to my call for testers. 4. I'd just committed a new version of GNU awk and it didn't seem a good time to change things again. 5. I don't actually know very much about awk - I only worked on it because for some reason people kept emailing me about changing the version in the tree :-) James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message