mawk0.97.shar 0 of 5

[Mike Brennan]

Mawk 0.97 an implementation of awk as defined in 
Aho, Kernighan and Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language,
Addison-Wesley, 1988
follows in 4 parts.


The 1988 definition of awk adds several features that
significantly enhance the language, including expanded
regular expression features, built-in substitution functions,
more IO control and user defined functions.

Advantages of mawk:
 1) Mawk is fast.  Benchmarks against 3 other new awks are included
    in the distribution.

 2) The record separator, RS, is interpreted as a regular expression.
    This make operations which are basically not line oriented easier
    to program and improves performance in some cases.


The posting is in shar format:
Cut off the tops, cat to a file and sh file from the directory you
want to be the parent of the mawk0.97 directory.


Mike Brennan
brennan at bcsaic.boeing.com
206-773-4425