Message-Id: <200001241325.HAA26275@darwin.sfbr.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:25:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Gawk 3.0.4 uploaded
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Cc: alain AT qnx DOT com
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-: Sun Box (SunOS-4.x) and other Un*x box, was ship with an old version
-: of awk /usr/bin/awk  that is not POSIX compliant and contain bugs.  A
-: new better version was written nawk.  But for hysterical reasons they
-: could not get rid of "awk".  It is usually better to use 'nawk'
-: 
-: On a GNU platform, GNU awk is awk (gawk), there is no nawk.  We do not
-: have to carry that baggage and GNU awk, was change to better POSIX compliant
-: etc .. without having to rename it ;-).
-: 
-: Hum . I don't think I was very helpfull for your problem ;-)

Au contraire.  Actually you give a fair enough reason for *not*
including the `nawk.exe' symlink.  Hmmmm....