wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker) (08/12/85)
I've been enjoying Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" column in the
CACM. However, it appears the AWK he's using at Murray Hill is a lot
fancier than the one that comes with 4.2BSD. Does the AWK that
includes functions come with System V? Or do us mundanes (non-AT&Ters)
just treat it as his private specification language until SYSTEM (++V)
comes out? (Is Kernighan even supplying it to the packagers of
commercial Un*x?)
[Follow-up to net.lang, except for SYSTEM (++V) Bundling spinoffs]
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> I've been enjoying Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" column in the > CACM. However, it appears the AWK he's using at Murray Hill is a lot > fancier than the one that comes with 4.2BSD. Does the AWK that > includes functions come with System V? The "awk" that comes with System V Release 1 is a version marginally older(!) than the 4.2BSD one - there are a couple of *extremely* minor things in the 4.2 one not in the S5R1 one. The 4.2 "awk" also has some fixes which keep it from trying to dereference NULL pointers. The "awk" that comes with System V Release 2 is later than the 4.2 one, and has all the aforementioned features, but, alas, not the bug fixes. (Those may show up later, since they broke the 68000 and possibly the 80286 microports, assuming AT&T folds all bug fixes from the microports back into the mainstream UNIX.) The S5R2 "awk" is also significantly faster than the older ones. However, it doesn't have any major new features. What version Bentley is running, I don't know, but I suspect it's an in-house version at AT&T BL research. Guy Harris