Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: C-News on Minix? Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 21:49:43 GMT References: <24690@louie.udel.EDU> <15809@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <3349@ast.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 27 In-reply-to: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 23 Sep 89 07:53:45 GMT In article <3349@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >In article <15809@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) writes: >> >>1) AWK. C News makes extensive use of AWK, and Minix doesn't really >>have an acceptable version. I have ported GNU Awk version 1.02 (the >I now have bawk running. I was going to wait until 1.4b before posting it, >but I will do it now. Be wary of GNU because P-H will never allow that >in the distribution without a formal, legal contract from the copyright owner, >FSF, which they will never accept. Which should not keep *us* from using GNU products. GNU products are in general of a very high quality, and GNU AWK is a very fine product indeed. If P-H bails out near GNU AWK (:-), shame on them! Its really silly if the GNU and MINIX efforts are going to work against each other, instead of cooperating (yes, I know that the RMS and AST disagree in many ways, not the least of which is the proper amount of memory to use for a given task :-). /Lars -- Copyright 1989 Lars Fischer; you can redistribute only if your recipients can. Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer Department of Computer Science, University of Aalborg, DENMARK. Why is it that some people insists on reinventing Square Wheels? - Mike O'Dell (on netnews)