15 Sep
2023
15 Sep
'23
5:24 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 5:09 AM KenUnix <ken.unix.guy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes. I normally keep quiet but what does transgender
flags have to do with AWK or Unix??
Several years ago, on this list, someone wrote a lengthy post about
women in software. It was not complimentary; the person was some kind
of "Men's Rights" activist. I stayed quiet at the time, and I regret
that; I'm not going to stay quiet now.
To directly answer your question: Mary Ann is an important figure in
the history of Unix. Mary Ann is transgender. Mary Ann has written a
book about her pioneering experience as a transgender woman in
corporate America at a time when that was rare (or, rather, not openly
discussed). Mary Ann's .sig contains information about her book. That
appears to be what you are responding to: her .sig; not the content of
her message, just the signature.
Let's at least stay with what the purpose of this
group is.
Indeed. Let's. It's not spoon-fooding tech support to people who can't
be bothered to figure it out for themselves, or do even a modicum of
work researching things on their own. Nor is it writing transphobic
non-sequiturs in response to .sigs. You didn't need to respond, at
all: you could have just moved on. But you chose not to.
Perhaps you should go elsewhere.
- Dan C.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 11:54 PM
<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
This is getting off-topic, folks...
Thanks,
Arnold
Ajay Shah <ajayshah(a)mayin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 07:10, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote:
>
> > Which Git repo? The CSV code is a game changer for awk, otherwise I need
> > a hokey python script.
> >
> Me too!
>
> > Is it being merged into the Gnu awk that will wind up in Red Hat awk?
> > Please please?
> >
> Debian is an important distribution in this regard, which may go into many
> other distros like Ubuntu. I just looked in Debian stable --
>
> $ apt-cache show original-awk
> Package: original-awk
> Version: 2022-09-12-1
> Installed-Size: 186
> Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila(a)debian.org>
> Architecture: amd64
> Provides: awk
> Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
> Description-en: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming
Language"
> This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
> by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
> (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).
> Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
> Multi-Arch: foreign
> Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
> Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
> role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
> works-with::text
> Section: interpreters
> Priority: optional
> Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2022-09-12-1_amd64.deb
> Size: 86548
> MD5sum: f5a128040710433c276d866038703051
> SHA256: f1835f1e5aca2f69e0b997b285b33b45aaa1abf4071edfd7481149076ca80a63
>
> The key URLs are
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/original-awk
> https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
> sanvila(a)debian.org
>
> --
> Ajay Shah
> ajayshah(a)mayin.org
> http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah
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