RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Marc Ramirez]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Paul Robinson wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:30:25PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> > 	True, but I'd still hate to see it go.  It's been such a basic
> > part of *nix for so long that I think way more people have come to
> > count on it than anyone realizes.
>
> OK, for awk, it's already been determined we have to keep it. I just vote a
> move over to the awk that OpenBSD has which isn't GPL. In fact, as much as
> we can nick as possible would be good... :-)

I vote for the switch as long as it doesn't affect that pacemaker software
I wrote a while back:

cat /dev/heartrate |
	awk '{if ($1<70 || $1>200) system("/usr/local/sbin/defibrillate");}'

More people count on awk than anyone realizes...

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