3 Mawk is an interpreter for the AWK programming language.
5 Mawk 1.0 implemented the language as defined in the 1988 AWK book.
6 Version 1.1 adds new features:
8 -- Full posix1003.2 draft(11.2) compliance
10 toupper(), tolower(), CONVFMT and ENVIRON[]
12 -v var=value command line assignments
14 Ansi C compatible printf() and sprintf()
16 -- Hard coded limits are either removed or much larger
18 -- MsDOS added, system() and pipes. BINMODE variable to
19 control CRLF translation.
22 Mawk is distributed without warranty under the terms of the
23 GNU General Public License, version 2, June 1991. The file
24 COPYING contains the GNU General Public License, version 2.
26 Mawk 1.1 has been test on:
28 sunos4.1.1 sun3 and sun4 (cc and gcc)
29 sunos4.0.3 sun3 and sun4 (cc and gcc)
30 ultrix4.2 decstation 5000 (mips) (cc and gcc)
31 ultrix4.1 microvax 3600
34 SysVR3 SCO3.2.2 (cc, rcc and gcc)
35 ESIX System 5.3.2 RevD using gcc 1.39
37 MsDOS TurboC++ 1.0 and BCC++, MSC5.1 and 6.0
38 MIPS M2000 C 2.20 (4.52)
39 Atarist cross compile with gcc
42 Mawk 1.0 compiled and tested on the following which should still
43 work with at most minor tweaking.
46 Dynix on Sequent Symmetry
51 Unix or Unix-like OS read INSTALL
52 MsDOS read msdos/NOTES
53 Mac read macintosh/NOTES
54 atarist read atarist/README.ST
56 mawk1.1 (this distribution) and mawk1_1.zip (msdos executables)
57 can also be obtained by anonymous ftp from oxy.edu.
59 Bug reports or other correspondence should be sent to