mark@hsi.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) (07/28/87)
I'm looking for an Awk program to run on my MS-DOS machine. I would like to
find a source in the public domain, but any info on a version which isn't
public domain would be very helpful too.
Thanks,
-mark
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Bell : (203) 562-2101 ext. 32tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) (07/30/87)
In article <659@hsi.UUCP>, mark@hsi.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) writes: > I'm looking for an Awk program to run on my MS-DOS machine. I would like to > find a source in the public domain, but any info on a version which isn't > public domain would be very helpful too. Mortice Kern Systems, 43 Bridgeport Road East, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2J4 (519)884-2251 {allegra, decvax, ihnp4}!watmath!mks!toolkit has a product called MKS Toolkit, that includes many UNIX utilities, including awk, for the PC. It costs $139. We've used it, and have been quite happy with it. It is not public domain. -- Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks 981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164 UUCP: seismo!uunet!ora!tim ARPA: tim@ora.uu.net
rand@mks.UUCP (07/31/87)
In article <659@hsi.UUCP>, mark@hsi.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) writes: > I'm looking for an Awk program to run on my MS-DOS machine. I would like to > find a source in the public domain, but any info on a version which isn't > public domain would be very helpful too. > ....... > Net : {noao!ihnp4!yale!}!hsi!mark > Snail: Health Systems Int'l, 100 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511 > Bell : (203) 562-2101 ext. 32 In reply to the request for a version of AWK for MS-DOS, Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) has a version of AWK as just one of the over 110 programs of the MKS Toolkit. The Toolkit is available now from the address below for $139 (US). Also, the same AWK unbundled (called MKS AWK) is scheduled for release on October 1, 1987 and will sell for $75 list (+$14 for the optional AWK book, as below). The MKS version of AWK is the only (known) MS-DOS implementation that supports all the latest features in the (soon-to-be) standard reference book for AWK "The AWK Programming Language" by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan which will be published in September 1987. These features include: - function definition - static and dynamic regular expression matching and substitution - multi-dimensioned arrays plus all the standard V7, BSD, and System V features of the "old" awk. -- ll // // ,~/~~\' Randall Howard {decvax,ihnp4,seismo}!watmath!mks!rand /ll/// //l' `\\\ Mortice Kern Systems Inc. / l //_// ll\___/ 43 Bridgeport Rd. E., Waterloo, ON, Can. N2J 2J4 O_/ (519)884-2251
tan@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Bill Tanenbaum) (08/01/87)
In article <646@ora.UUCP>, tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) writes:
< Mortice Kern Systems, 43 Bridgeport Road East, Waterloo,
< Ontario, Canada N2J 2J4 (519)884-2251
< {allegra, decvax, ihnp4}!watmath!mks!toolkit
< has a product called MKS Toolkit, that includes many UNIX
< utilities, including awk, for the PC. It costs $139.
< We've used it, and have been quite happy with it.
< It is not public domain.
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When I called up MKS to order version 2.2 of the toolkit, they
told me to order it from an outfit in Ohio called Programmers
Connection. It was only $99 (US). I am very happy with it,
especially the Korn shell and vi.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tandavid@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (08/02/87)
In article <284@mks.UUCP> rand@mks.UUCP (Randall Howard) writes: >In article <659@hsi.UUCP>, mark@hsi.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) writes: >> I'm looking for an Awk program to run on my MS-DOS machine. I would like to >> find a source in the public domain, but any info on a version which isn't >> public domain would be very helpful too. >> ....... >> Net : {noao!ihnp4!yale!}!hsi!mark >> Snail: Health Systems Int'l, 100 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511 >> Bell : (203) 562-2101 ext. 32 Well ... GNU isn't exactly public domain, but they do have an AWK. It's called "GAWK" ... The last I heard was that it was in Beta test, and since I'm a beta tester for it I suppose I'd have heard if it had come out of beta-stage.... I don't have any documentation, so I'm not for sure of this ... but I believe this awk doesn't have any of the V8 features like procedures. It oughta be portable to MS-DOS ... and if it aint, then I'm sure they'd love it if you ported it there for them ... :-) -- ----- David Herron, Local E-Mail Hack, david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet ----- {uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET ----- ----- Je parle francais comme une vache espagnole.