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Re: 2008Q1 -> current: downgrade



 >> > PS.  (Off topic, so I left it as a postscript) Since when has NetBSD
 >> > had its own version of awk?
 >> 
 >> It is one-true-awk with a bunch of GNUisms supported. IIRC gensub falls
 >> into that category. For quite a while as answer to the second question.

> Indeed, it is one-true-awk, which replaced GNU awk a few years ago.

> One-true-awk is one-true-awk, not NetBSD awk, although some GNUisms
> have been added, as you rightly say.

awk from NetBSD cvs repository is NOT similar to nawk.  A few
extensions were added and a bunch of bugs (critical for me) were
fixed. So, I name it NetBSD version of awk.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.


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