8 Apr
2011
8 Apr
'11
3:56 a.m.
I know for sure that in 1988's svr3.2 the "awk" command was the 1988
version
and the "oawk" command was the version from 1979.
In svr3.0 the "awk" command was the old and we'd get the new one
from Holmdel's unix tools distribution group (called USTOP) and
install it as "nawk"
I think you could get the new one in stock svr3.1 but cannot
remember it it was provide as "awk" or "nawk."
Hi. Does anyone remember for sure if "new"
awk shipped with System V
Release 3.1 or 3.2? I know it wasn't 3.0.
Thanks!
Arnold Robbins
8 Apr
8 Apr
4:10 a.m.
New subject: when did new awk first appear?
bwk tarred up his awk source and sent it to me. I can paw through and see
what I can find. Unless he objects. I know dmr lurks here, does bwk?
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4:21 a.m.
New subject: when did new awk first appear?
The one-true-awk is in FreeBSD, so why would bwk object to your pawing through his
tarball? It is in FreeBSD's svn repo.
Warner
On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
bwk tarred up his awk source and sent it to me. I can
paw through and see
what I can find. Unless he objects. I know dmr lurks here, does bwk?
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5:06 a.m.
New subject: when did new awk first appear?
Indeed. I funded a lot of work based on awk and at some point I asked
bwk if we could see the original source. He sent me ~bwk/awk as a
tarball.
The dmr reference is because I've never seen bwk here but dmr does
show up.
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:01:46PM -0700, Deborah Scherrer wrote:
Brian Kernighan wrote awk, not Dennis.
Debbie
On 4/7/2011 9:10 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> bwk tarred up his awk source and sent it to me. I can paw through and see
> what I can find. Unless he objects. I know dmr lurks here, does bwk?
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7:52 a.m.
New subject: when did new awk first appear?
not sure when it was exactly but very early
see p 46 http://auskadi.googlepages.com/nix1.pdf
On 8 April 2011 14:21, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
The one-true-awk is in FreeBSD, so why would bwk
object to your pawing
through his tarball? It is in FreeBSD's svn repo.
Warner
On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
bwk tarred up his awk source and sent it to me.
I can paw through and
see
what I can find. Unless he objects. I know dmr
lurks here, does bwk?
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com
http://www.bitkeeper.com
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9:02 a.m.
New subject: when did new awk first appear?
On Apr 8, 2011, at 7:01, Deborah Scherrer wrote:
Brian Kernighan wrote awk
Officially it was written by Aho Weinberger Kernighan but
I suspect Brian did most of the actual coding.
Debbie
On 4/7/2011 9:10 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> bwk tarred up his awk source and sent it to me.
I suspect it was actually a shar ball. I received a version around 1987
when the book (See <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/>)
was still being written.
I don't know when it was officially distributed or in which distribution.
jaap
10:19 a.m.
New subject: when did new awk first appear?
Hi All. Thanks for the responses. BWK's awk is available from his home
page at Princeton, http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk, click on the link
for the Bell Labs mirror and keep going.
The FreeBSD awk is based on BWK's, with a number of fixes / improvements,
but I don't know how frequently they sync with his version; the most
recent on BWK's home page is from May 2010.
I asked BWK when it was first released to the world but he doesn't
remember if it was SVR3.1 or SVR3.2. The FIXES file in the source says
the book on awk went to the printer in August 1987 and I remember that
it was October 1987 when I bought the book. I suppose I should try to
double check if it says that awk is available with Unix from AT&T; if
it does then that probably points at SVR3.1. (Anyone know the official
release dates for 3.1 and 3.2? That might help.)
The gawk doc has said 3.1 since forever, but recently I started to wonder.
Nevertheless, since I wrote that much closer to when it happened, maybe I
should just trust my past self and not worry about it too much. :-)
BWK first released his awk publicly circa 1993; I have about 20 different
versions, which I think comprise all the public releases he's made over
the years, but I can't be sure that I didn't miss any, since he doesn't
notify me when he makes a release :-(.
Thanks,
Arnold
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