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From: psc@lzwi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: AWK
Message-ID: <249@lzwi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 06:58:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: lzwi.249
Posted: Sat Aug 17 06:58:25 1985
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References: <323@faron.UUCP>
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Keywords: AWK, Programming Pearls, Bentley
Summary: awk w/functions still internal to research

In article <323@faron.UUCP>, wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker) writes:
> I've been enjoying Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" column in the
> CACM.  However, it appears the AWK he's using at Murray Hill is a lot
> fancier than the one that comes with 4.2BSD.  Does the AWK that
> includes functions come with System V?  Or do us mundanes (non-AT&Ters)
> just treat it as his private specification language until SYSTEM (++V)
> comes out?  (Is Kernighan even supplying it to the packagers of
> commercial Un*x?)

According to one of the att internal newsgroups, awk with functions
is still a research "product".  The posting was looking for heavy
awk users inside AT&T to act as beta sites for the new version.  It's
not even being generally distributed within Bell Labs (yet).
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