From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24088 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2022 19:42:41 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Jan 2022 19:42:41 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B4AD29C153; Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:42:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A1DD9C0BF; Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:42:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1C4329C0BF; Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:42:25 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 901 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:42:23 AEST Received: from mxout5.netvision.net.il (mxout5.netvision.net.il [194.90.6.65]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0AE9C0BE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2022 05:42:23 +1000 (AEST) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from tanda ([109.186.158.67]) by mxout5.netvision.net.il (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 8.0.2.1.20180104 64bit (built Jan 4 2018)) with ESMTPSA id <0R5G00EV0JDJ5330@mxout5.netvision.net.il> for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:27:20 +0200 (IST) Received: from arnold by tanda with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n6dqY-00024S-OX; Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:27:18 +0200 Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:27:18 +0200 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10 Message-id: From: Arnold Robbins Subject: [TUHS] awkcc available again! X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Hello All. I am pleased to announce that, after a multi-year effort, Chris Ramming's awkcc is now once again available for download, and this time with a more permissive license. I would like to thank Brian Kernighan, Chris Ramming and Doug McIlroy for contributing letters of support to my efforts to get this program re-released. The lion's share of the thanks must go to Martin Carroll of Nokia Bell Labs, who fought the uphill battle within Bell Labs to get permission to release the code, and who uploaded it to GitHub. Me? I pushed here and there, and contributed the actual code snapshots; it seems that Bell Labs had misplaced the code in the meantime. :-) The code, both the 1988 and 2011 versions, may be found at https://github.com/nokia/awkcc. The code is primarily of historical interest; I think it would take a significant effort to build it on a more modern system, although I think it could be done. It'd also be an effort to bring it up to date with the current Unix version of awk. Again most likely doable, but not necessarily trivial. In any case, enjoy! Arnold