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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.3.2 and kernel build
Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:24:41 GMT
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In article <1hqciuINN620@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ljo@murphy.eeap.cwru.edu
(L. Jonas Olsson) writes:
>
> One program that breaks is awk, but as this is the GNU gawk it should
> perhaps be replaced by the latest version anyway.

The `awk' which comes with 386BSD is *not* `gawk'; it is `mawk'.  I
have installed gawk 2.14, and it works fine for me.

> I will follow up with fixes as soon as I get uucp and Emacs up.

Emacs 18.59 comes with support for 386BSD; it is trivial to compile.

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