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- This version of AWK was inspired by the programming language BAWK
- which was in turn inspired by AWK. I had just finished modifying the LEX and
- YACC preprocessors to conform to the UNIX documentation and saw this as an
- opportunity to use these utilities. Hence this version of AWK is partly
- written in LEX and YACC and is compiled with Borland Turbo C.
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- The YACC grammar generates a pseudo code program for each pattern and
- action which is interpreted by ycode interpreter. The regular expressions are
- compiled by a recursive descent single pass compiler into a related p-code
- program that is executed by an rcode interpreter.
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- I have attempted to make sure that this version of pc AWK conforms to
- the language described by the book "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho,
- Weinberger and Kernighan.
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- This version of AWK is not intended to be in the public domain and is
- the sole property of Rob Duff. Any distribution for commercial gain is
- prohibited. If you have the source you may freely use the ideas embodied in
- the code but may not copy any part.
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- Report any bugs, shortcomings and comments to me at (604)251-1816
- FidoNet 153/713.
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- Rob Duff
- Vancouver BC
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- FidoNet 1:153/713
- BBS: (604)251-1816
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