Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:53:33 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU Less v332 uploaded
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On 3 Jun 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> What is Less and what is a bex? :)
> What the hell is Gawk?

These are part of DJGPP for so long that I didn't even think to
describe them.  Less is even mentioned in the FAQ (hint, hint).  It's
like to ask "What the hell is Info?"

Anyway, Less is a powerful text file browser (like `more' but much
more, pun intended), and Gawk is an interpreter for a C-like scripting 
language with a lot of built-in functions.