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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- >Submitted-by: jh@fortec.tuwien.ac.at (Johann Haider)
- >As I consider this function very useful, I think it should be added to
- >the standard or at least it should not be omitted from the standard
- >without being discussed.
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- It is, unfortunately, rather too late for this. 1003.2, which covers
- awk among many other things, is pretty much finalized.
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- It *is* a blemish that awk can do various kinds of conversions *to*
- strings using sprintf, but can't go the other way very easily.
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- GCC 2.0 is to C as SVR4 is to Unix. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 44
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