awk arguments

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <290 at sun13.scri.fsu.edu> mayne at VSSERV.SCRI.FSU.EDU (William (Bill) Mayne) writes:
-While I am on the subject of awk: I learned about the language
-from the book "The AWK Programming Language" by Kernighan et. al.
-before I started working on unix. I have been disappointed to
-find that the version actually available on every flavor of unix
-I have seen is much weaker than the full version described by the
-book. Are there better versions out there?

As of UNIX System V Release 3.2, "new awk" (the version described in
the book) was provided, although sometimes just under the name "nawk".
It is also available from the AT&T UNIX System ToolChest.