Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net>]

As for gawk and mawk, what is written in the mawk package description is:
 Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-time
 limits such as NF = 32767 and sprintf buffer = 1020.

Now whatever one's oppinion of that is, perhaps this is why mawk is installed by
default. But one certainly can install gawk easily enough.
Frankly, I don't really understand what the big deal is with which package of
the examples that were cited is installed by default. Installing a different
package is usually a simple matter of apt-get use, so if you don't like
something that is there, replacing it usually isn't any big undertaking.

Cheryl


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