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From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C-News on Minix?
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Date: 25 Sep 89 21:49:43 GMT
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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
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