Subj : much change yet still the same ... sort of
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Thu Aug 25 2022 05:38 pm

Hello Maurice!

25 Aug 22 02:38, Maurice Kinal wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

 GK>> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1959392  6 Apr. 09:30 /lib/libc.so.7

 MK> What's your point?  I see no output that would lead me to believe 
 MK> that /lib/libc.so.7 is worthy of running on any machine here whereas 
 MK> the output of /lib/libc.so.6 tells much of what is under the hood ... 
 MK> and it is the good stuff.  Definetly GNU.

My point would be that nothing should be flagged executable that doesn't need to be executable.

 GK>> HISTORY
 GK>>    An awk utility appeared in Version´+¢7 AT&T UNIX.

 MK> That was a long time ago.  I am betting it preceded both mawk and 
 MK> gawk.

Probably.

 GK>> So why bother about GNU residues at all? ;-)

 MK> I favour them and they've been good to me over the years, including 
 MK> gawk.  I've never used, nor ever seen, AT&T UNIX's awk.  How about 
 MK> you?

Nah, I'm not /that/ old. ;-)

However, FreeBSD comes with nawk. gawk just doesn't feature the proper license, I guess...

https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

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This is the One True 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).
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Regards,
Gerrit

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