Message-Id: <200001221803.MAA11680@darwin.sfbr.org> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:03:19 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff Williams Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Gawk 3.0.4 uploaded To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: tWXyMZw4QJqexsAFdy6+OA== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.3.4 SunOS 5.7 sun4u sparc Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com -: > Is there a reason to (or not to) also include the symlink `nawk.exe' as -: > well as `awk.exe' (both stubedited to point to gawk)? -: -: The reason `awk.exe' is included is because the "install:" target of the Gawk -: Makefile creates that symlink. It does no such thing for `nawk'. -: -: In general, it is my opinion that a port should faithfully do what the -: original distribution does, no more, no less. I do agree with you here. -: However, if adding `nawk' -: would help, it shouldn't be a problem to do that. But I wonder if the reason -: for doing so might be valid for other platforms as well, Here's why I asked. The man page for nawk (from Solaris 2.7, but I first read it in a SunOS 4.x manpage) contains the following note: ------ NOTES nawk is a new version of awk that provides capabilities unavailable in previous versions. This version will become the default version of awk in the next major release. ------ I suppose this means the `next major release' of awk. Anyway, after reading that I got into the habit of using `nawk' rather than `awk' in scripts, etc. Maybe I should break that habit and just alias `awk' to `nawk' on my Sun box, and both `awk' and `nawk' to `gawk' on my djgpp box. Then I could just use `awk' everywhere and not worry it. -: in which case I -: suggest to report this to the Gawk maintainer. I will do so if you think this is appropriate.