awk arguments

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In article <1650 at quando.quantum.de>, omerzu at quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu)
says:
>
....
>
>| While I am on the subject of awk: I learned about the language
>| from the book "The AWK Programming Language" by Kernighan et. al.
>| before I started working on unix. I have been disappointed to
>| find that the version actually available on every flavor of unix
>| I have seen is much weaker than the full version described by the
>| book. Are there better versions out there?
>
>Well, I don't know that book
>and thus I don't know what weaknesses you're pointing at.
>Maybe you could tell us something more specific?
>
>I've always been quite satisfied with the
>abilities of 'awk'
>
Try paying AT&T some money for a better version or better still try
the GNU version GAWK which is "fully upward compatible with the System V
Release 3.1 and later version of awk" (GAWK manual).

Alan Thew
University of Liverpool Computer Laboratory
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