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AWK 20230909 for DOS (AKA nawk) (Announce)

posted by usotsuki, 07.06.2024, 06:09

> The previous DOS build of "one true" AWK for us was via OpenWatcom by
> Gunther Knauf, IIRC, way back in 2010. It works okay (and large model,
> apparently) but doesn't quite have as much free RAM as MAWK.

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> I only use "classic" OpenWatcom 1.9 since newer 2.0-pre hasn't been
> finalized (or perfectly tested, dunno). But FYI you can use "-za99" to
> allow some C99 features, e.g. "int blah = func();" (that you apparently
> worked around in a few places).

I don't seem to have had issues rolling bwk awk with OpenWatcom 1.9, from experience, but it's been a couple years and I don't really have a way to test it for brokenness.

Complete thread:

• AWK 20230909 for DOS (AKA nawk) - bencollver, 03.06.2024, 21:56 (Announce)
  • AWK 20230909 for DOS (AKA nawk) - Rugxulo, 07.06.2024, 04:26
    • AWK 20230909 for DOS (AKA nawk) - usotsuki, 07.06.2024, 06:09