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- 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)
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- References: <RANDY.92Dec28095652@dsndata.dsndata.com> <1hqciuINN620@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1ht0i9INNev6@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- >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!
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