From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
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References: <7865990699.20010821200440@proweb.co.uk>, <200108220821.f7M8LVH04397@skeeve.com>
Subject: [9fans] Re: Caldera source
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:01:17 +0000
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Hi,

> Gee, I hope no-one tells them that Brian Kernighan has been able to
> make his awk available for going on eight years now.  First via
> netlib, these days off his home page
> (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bwk).

Brian's version should be preferred out of the two;  it looks to have
more bugs fixed.

    echo awk | awk '{gsub(/a/, "\\\\&")} 1'


Ralph.