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From: "Paul A. Patience" <paul-a.patience@polymtl.ca>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] doing a native awk port (was Re: Bug in print(2) g verb)
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I am actually the one who asked bwk for his test
suite, which he later put on github. I started
with some gawk tests while waiting for the test
suite, however.

As for plan9's awk, it runs on ape. I am trying
to make it run without ape. I had thought of
starting with the latest version of awk, but
boyd's port was nearly complete (it's in contrib).
All I've been doing is making small bugfixes here
and there. I'm not finished yet, but it won't be
too much longer, hopefully. Perhaps after that I
can take a look at the latest awk.