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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5793 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:56:01 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ljo From: ljo@r2d2.eeap.cwru.edu (L. Jonas Olsson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: mawk (Was Re: gcc-2.3.2 and kernel build) Date: 31 Dec 1992 17:15:22 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <1hv9raINNc4d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <RANDY.92Dec28095652@dsndata.dsndata.com> <1hqciuINN620@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1ht0i9INNev6@life.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: proteus.eeap.cwru.edu In article <1ht0i9INNev6@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > >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. Yes I was wrong about this. Onno van der Linden sent me patches for mawk1.1.2.tar.Z that I have put in ref.tfs.com:/usp/packages/mawk. This mawk supposedly passes all tests when compiled with gcc2, I have not had to test it myself though. >> I will follow up with fixes as soon as I get uucp and Emacs up. This is a mis-quoute, I did not write about uucp and Emacs. >Emacs 18.59 comes with support for 386BSD; it is trivial to compile. > >-- > \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu > /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. >Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!