Other Freely Available awk Implementations

It's kind of fun to put comments like this in your awk code.
      // Do C++ comments work? answer: yes! of course
Michael Brennan

There are two other freely available awk implementations. This section briefly describes where to get them.

Unix awk

Brian Kernighan has been able to make his implementation of awk freely available. You can get it via anonymous ftp to the host netlib.att.com. Change directory to `/netlib/research'. Use "binary" or "image" mode, and retrieve `awk.bundle.Z'. This is a shell archive that has been compressed with the compress utility. It can be uncompressed with either uncompress or the GNU gunzip utility. This version requires an ANSI C compiler; GCC (the GNU C compiler) works quite nicely.

mawk

Michael Brennan has written an independent implementation of awk, called mawk. It is available under the GPL (see section GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE), just as gawk is. You can get it via anonymous ftp to the host ftp.whidbey.net. Change directory to `/pub/brennan'. Use "binary" or "image" mode, and retrieve `mawk1.3.3.tar.gz' (or the latest version that is there). gunzip may be used to decompress this file. Installation is similar to gawk's (see section Compiling and Installing gawk on Unix).

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