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1 | This is mawk 1.1 |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK programming language. | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | Mawk 1.0 implemented the language as defined in the 1988 AWK book. | |
| 6 | Version 1.1 adds new features: | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | -- Full posix1003.2 draft(11.2) compliance | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | toupper(), tolower(), CONVFMT and ENVIRON[] | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | -v var=value command line assignments | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | Ansi C compatible printf() and sprintf() | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | -- Hard coded limits are either removed or much larger | |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | -- MsDOS added, system() and pipes. BINMODE variable to | |
| 19 | control CRLF translation. | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | ||
| 22 | Mawk is distributed without warranty under the terms of the | |
| 23 | GNU General Public License, version 2, June 1991. The file | |
| 24 | COPYING contains the GNU General Public License, version 2. | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | Mawk 1.1 has been test on: | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | sunos4.1.1 sun3 and sun4 (cc and gcc) | |
| 29 | sunos4.0.3 sun3 and sun4 (cc and gcc) | |
| 30 | ultrix4.2 decstation 5000 (mips) (cc and gcc) | |
| 31 | ultrix4.1 microvax 3600 | |
| 32 | ultrix3.1 vax | |
| 33 | bsd43 vax | |
| 34 | SysVR3 SCO3.2.2 (cc, rcc and gcc) | |
| 35 | ESIX System 5.3.2 RevD using gcc 1.39 | |
| 36 | SysVR3 Stardent 3000 | |
| 37 | MsDOS TurboC++ 1.0 and BCC++, MSC5.1 and 6.0 | |
| 38 | MIPS M2000 C 2.20 (4.52) | |
| 39 | Atarist cross compile with gcc | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | ||
| 42 | Mawk 1.0 compiled and tested on the following which should still | |
| 43 | work with at most minor tweaking. | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | XENIX SysV R2.3.1 | |
| 46 | Dynix on Sequent Symmetry | |
| 47 | apolloSR10.3 | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | ||
| 50 | To install: | |
| 51 | Unix or Unix-like OS read INSTALL | |
| 52 | MsDOS read msdos/NOTES | |
| 53 | Mac read macintosh/NOTES | |
| 54 | atarist read atarist/README.ST | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | mawk1.1 (this distribution) and mawk1_1.zip (msdos executables) | |
| 57 | can also be obtained by anonymous ftp from oxy.edu. | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | Bug reports or other correspondence should be sent to | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | Mike Brennan | |
| 62 | brennan@boeing.com |