> PS: I have read old logs where it was discussed that awk should be a
> native plan9 application and not an ape port (or, at least, it should
> use rc instead of the ape shell). Is there any reason this was not
> done? or was it not worth the trouble?
probablly because it'll (or could, anyway) br
2009/7/24 Sergey Zhilkin :
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> Any known issues with 9vx and AWK ?
The awk system() built-in does not work in 9vx out of the box. I think
the reason is awk uses the ape shell to execute system commands and
ape is not included (it uses the stdlib.h system() function, that's
for sure). I have not fo