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 Other Freely Available `awk' Implementations
 ============================================
 
      It's kind of fun to put comments like this in your awk code.
            `// Do C++ comments work? answer: yes! of course'
      Michael Brennan
 
 
 
    There are two other freely available `awk' implementations.  This
 section briefly describes where to get them.
 
 Unix `awk'
      Brian Kernighan has been able to make his implementation of `awk'
      freely available.  You can get it via anonymous `ftp' to the host
      `netlib.bell-labs.com'.  Change directory to `/netlib/research'.
      Use "binary" or "image" mode, and retrieve `awk.bundle.gz'.
 
      This is a shell archive that has been compressed with the GNU
      `gzip' utility. It can be uncompressed with the `gunzip' utility.
 
      You can also retrieve this version via the World Wide Web from his
      home page (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/bwk).
 
      This version requires an ANSI C compiler; GCC (the GNU C compiler)
      works quite nicely.
 
 `mawk'
      Michael Brennan has written an independent implementation of `awk',
      called `mawk'.  It is available under the GPL ( GNU GENERAL
      PUBLIC LICENSE Copying.), just as `gawk' is.
 
      You can get it via anonymous `ftp' to the host `ftp.whidbey.net'.
      Change directory to `/pub/brennan'.  Use "binary" or "image" mode,
      and retrieve `mawk1.3.3.tar.gz' (or the latest version that is
      there).
 
      `gunzip' may be used to decompress this file. Installation is
      similar to `gawk''s ( Compiling and Installing `gawk' on
      Unix Unix Installation.).
 

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