Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site lzwi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!pegasus!lzwi!psc 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 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 05:37:33 EDT References: <323@faron.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T-IS Enhanced Network Services Lines: 19 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). -- -Paul S. R. Chisholm The above opinions are my own, {pegasus,vax135}!lzwi!psc not necessarily those of any {mtgzz,ihnp4}!lznv!psc telecommunications company. (*sigh* ihnp4!lzwi!psc does *NOT* work!!! Use above paths.) "Of *course* it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with a fake?"