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   Message 7,612 of 8,232   
   Gerrit Kuehn to Maurice Kinal   
   much change yet still the same ... sort    
   25 Aug 22 17:38:54   
   
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   TID: hpt/fbsd 1.9 2021-12-02   
   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   
      
   ---   
   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).   
   ---   
      
      
   Regards,   
   Gerrit   
      
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