tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) (08/03/87)
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. I posted a reply to this recommending MKS toolkit, and got the following reply by mail: > Somebody forwarded me your message; unfortunately, it did not contain > enough information for me to reply to the original inquirer directly. > Jay Fenlason and I have written a free Awk replacement for the GNU > Project called "gawk". It, too, is not public domain, but it is licensed > under a GNU copyleft which means that anyone can copy it or distribute > copies as long as they include source code and do not try to prevent further > redistribution (including of any changes they have made). I believe > someone has ported it to the IBM PC, but am not sure. Contact > hack@prep.ai.mit.edu for further information. > Would you mind posting this reply on those newsgroups? > I'm unable to from here. Thanks. > paul rubin > GNU project -- 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