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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this?
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2003 08:48:03 +0000
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boyd, rounin wrote:
> bugger it, i'm porting it away from ape.

But there is still a specification for awk to which
I urge you to conform.  awk runs on a multitude of
platforms and it would be nice if awk programs were
portable.