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- Subject: GAWK v2.14 available from FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.215838.4130@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:58:38 CDT
- Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
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- GAWK v2.14 is the Free Software Foundation's version of awk, an
- interpretive language for processing text files. If you've never used
- awk, you might want to give it a try. It lets you quickly write
- C-like programs to process text files---I use it here at WKU to
- produce nightly accounting summaries for my mail traffic, Jnet
- traffic, etc. It's very powerful. This version should also be
- compatible with POSIX awk.
-
- The WKUVX1 distributions include all the files from the original
- distribution. All I did was untar the files, compile and link GAWK,
- and ZIP them up. The sources are, of course, written in C and can be
- compiled using VAX C, GNU C, and POSIX. The included .OBJ and .EXE
- files for VMS were created using VAX C v3.2 and VMS v5.1.
-
- To get GAWK v2.14 via e-mail, send the following commands (without the
- comments) in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:
-
- SEND GAWK-2-14 !37 60-block files
- SEND FILESERV_TOOLS
-
- The GAWK documentation is included in that package as a TeXinfo file.
- If you have TeX, the GAWK manual can be easily formatted. For those
- without TeX or who want to avoid the hassles of formatting the docs,
- they're available via the following commands:
-
- SEND GAWK-DOC-2-14 !17 60-block files
- SEND GAWK-PS-2-14 !14 60-block files
-
- GAWK-DOC-2-14 contains the .DVI file and .INFO files for the GAWK
- manual. GAWK-PS-2-14 contains PostScript versions of the GAWK manual
- and man pages.
-
- Finally, you can get GAWK via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu
- ([192.107.46.27]); you'll need:
-
- [.MACRO32]UNZIP.EXE
- [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]GAWK-2-14.ZIP
- [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]GAWK-DOC-2-14.ZIP
- [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]GAWK-PS-2-14.ZIP
-
- Hunter
- ------
- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-