11 Apr
2011
11 Apr
'11
12:43 p.m.
Hi.
New awk existed inside the Research group for some time before it
filtered out through System V. It was even available separately,
directly from them, to educational institutions. Circa 1986 I got
a copy that way when I worked at the Emory University computing center.
Hi. Does
anyone remember for sure if "new" awk shipped with System V
Release 3.1 or 3.2? I know it wasn't 3.0.
Hi,
http://www.levenez.com/lang/ says 1978 for oawk and 1985 for nawk. regarding http://www.levenez.com/unix/, 1978 is
between v6 and v7,
and 1985 is between SVr2 and SVr3.0.
True but not relevant; new awk was released with System V at either
3.1 or 3.2; I'm leaning towards 3.1 since that is what I wrote way back
when in the gawk manual when I knew for sure. :-)
Unless anyone can check the actual sources, I think we should declare
this closed... Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
Arnold