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In article <2748@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> rmmqq11@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. Thew.) writes:
>The gawk manual, page 1 mentions that nawk at SVR4 has "some new
>features". I have the AT&T "User's Reference Manual" and no obvious
>new features seem to be present in nawk. 
>
>What have I missed?
Well, there are at least two programs going under the name "awk".  The
original and an enhanced version (there are others such as GNU awk and
something called mawk which I've not seen.)  The difficulty is that
the original and enhanced versions tend not to be distinguished in the
docs. So a manual page for awk may in fact be for the newer awk (or nawk
as it is often called.)   On the UTS system both awks are available, the
original is called awk and the enhanced version is called nawk -- BUT
in the manual pages and other printed documentation BOTH are refered to
as "awk"!  This caused me to beat up my terminal for 2 hours while
attempting to get an example from the nawk docs to work with awk.

I've now installed gawk on our UTS system and am no longer cruel to
my terminal.
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