[9fans] updating awk ...

2018-08-27 Thread Arnold Robbins
Hi. A few years ago Erik synced the Plan 9 awk with Brian Kernighan's. I have recently gotten BWK to fix some long-standing bugs. His code is updated and available at https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk. If "someone" wants to pull in his changes, now's a good time to do so. :-) Thanks, Arnold

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

2018-08-27 Thread hiro
also check out spew's awk, it's native in 9front.

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

2018-08-27 Thread hiro
spew is a 9front user who wanted to improve awk. there is no separate hg location, branch, etc., awk is in the default branch of 9front. i don't know if he wasted a thought on unix while he was doing that, better ask him: he's on #cat-v on freenode regularly. the 9front distribution .iso contain