[comp.os.minix] GAWK for minix, intro

ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (02/28/91)

What follows are the eleven parts that compose the necessary files for
GAWK to run under MINIX without floating point support.  Please see the
README file for complete information about GAWK.

GAWK is a Free Software Foundation program written to replace awk.  Since
the supplied minix awk clone, bawk, seems to not be a complete enough
implementation of the awk language, I obtained GAWK version 2.11
and removed the floating point support from it as well as making a
few other changes to get it to compile under MINIX.  Although my testing
of it has not been exhaustive, the scripts I have run through GAWK
have worked fine.  I compiled GAWK using Bruce Evans' C compiler under
386-MINIX.  While GAWK does not seem to be a true "memory hog" in the
sense of other GNU programs, it probably will not be useful in the
PC-MINIX 64K I&D environment -- I'm sure someone will let me know if
I'm right or not.

Here goes....

Guy

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