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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this?
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> > 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?
nawk?
gawk?
mawk?
bawk?
squawk?

Frobbing exit[s] (and making it grok UTF-8?) are not evil designs on life,
the universe, and everything.

--lyndon