Endorsement of GNU Awk

[Jon.Webb at ius2.cs.cmu.edu]

dcatla!itwaf at gatech.edu (Bill Fulton [Sys Admin]) writes:
>> ...
>> ... nawk from the AT&T Toolchest.  Source code is $300, binary relicensing
>> ...
>
>That's a great price, and I need the nawk functionality, but I've got
>enough development projects!

I got GNU Awk from prep.ai.mit.edu, compiled it, and it works great.  Why
pay when you can get good software for free?  It seems to have all the
functionality documented in the Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger book.

-- J